PG&E Provides Update on Enhanced Safety Inspections
June 19 2019 - 4:53PM
Dow Jones News
By Stephen Nakrosis
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corp.
(PCG), said Wednesday enhanced safety inspections in high-fire
threat areas in California were carried out over the past six
months.
The utility said as of the end of May, it completed visual
inspections of about 99% of its distribution infrastructure, and
visual or aerial inspections were conducted on about 98% of its
transmission infrastructure in high-fire threat areas.
PG&E also said the Caribou-Palermo transmission line, which
has been out of service since December 2018, has been permanently
de-energized. The line had been identified as an ignition point of
the 2018 Camp Fire, which was the deadliest wildfire in state
history.
The utility will replace 10 of 11 towers in high-fire threat
areas on the Ignacio-Alto-Sausalito transmission line, it said.
The utility said more than 2,000 PG&E employees and
contractors carried out the inspection work and have been
integrating new technologies that will continue to be used by the
company.
--Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 19, 2019 16:38 ET (20:38 GMT)
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