PG&E Restores More Than Half of Customers Following Public Safety Power Shutoff
October 11 2019 - 1:57AM
Business Wire
Weather Conditions in Nearly All Counties Now
Safe to Conduct Inspections, Repairs and Begin Power
Restoration
Majority of Customer Resource Centers Will
Remain Open on Friday
Windy Weather Should Subside in Kern County by
Early Friday
Pacific Gas and Electric Company reported late Thursday that
more than half of customers impacted by the Public Safety Power
Shutoff (PSPS) have had their power restored. About 426,000 out of
a total 738,000 customers have been restored, including full
restoration in Humboldt, Siskiyou and Trinity counties. About
312,000 customers remain without power.
PG&E initiated a PSPS on Wednesday due to hot, windy weather
across its service area. Wind gusts in excess of 70 miles per hour
were recorded Wednesday evening and into Thursday.
As the weather has improved, an “all-clear” signal was given on
Thursday afternoon indicating the weather had subsided to the point
where safety inspections, repair and restoration efforts were able
to begin in many areas.
Safety patrols and inspections, which can only take place during
daylight hours, concluded at nightfall for today. Patrols will
begin again at daybreak on Friday with more than 6,300
on-the-ground field personnel and 44 staged helicopters. Customers
will be restored once safety patrols, inspections and necessary
repairs are complete.
As of 10 p.m. Thursday, PG&E had identified 11 instances of
weather-related damage to its system in the PSPS-impacted areas,
and the company is working to address these repairs.
Areas where all-clear has not yet been declared include portions
of Butte, Plumas and Yuba counties as well as Kern County, where a
third phase of PSPS was implemented late Thursday morning impacting
approximately 4,000 customers. The weather conditions in Kern
County are expected to continue into early Friday.
Customer update
During the period of the PSPS, customers in impacted areas will
not be billed, and PG&E has paused disconnection and collection
activities in these areas.
Twenty-seven PG&E Community Resource Centers remain open
throughout the service area to provide water, phone charging
stations, air-conditioned seating and restrooms for customers. Over
3,300 customers utilized the centers on Thursday. To view the full
list, click here.
Customers can visit pge.com/pspsupdates for more
information.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San
Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers
some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 16 million people in
Northern and Central California. For more information, visit
www.pge.com and www.pge.com/news.
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