The California Public Utilities Commission has ordered that BART be exempt from rotating power outages resulting from the energy crisis, BART spokesman Mike Healy said Wednesday.

BART has been working with Pacific, Gas & Electric since late last year to gain exempt status, but the Public Utilities Commission order handed down Tuesday made it official, Healy said. The transit service buys 90 percent of its power from Bonneville in Oregon, roughly 5 percent from Western Area Power Associates and the rest from PG&E.

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