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Thousands of PG&E and Contract Workers Deployed in Response to Today’s Second Storm
Ongoing Adverse Weather and Access Issues Due to Low Snow Delaying Restoration for Some Customers in Hardest Hit Areas
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) crews have restored essentially all customers who lost electricity following the storm that hit Northern and Central California earlier this week. As PG&E continues to assess damage, make repairs and safely restore service to remaining customers, crews are prepared to respond to a second storm moving through Northern and Central California.
Since the start of this series of storms on Sunday, PG&E has restored power to more than 350,000 customers. Through yesterday, power had been restored to more than 91 percent of customers in six hours or less. Overall, about 15,000 customers remain out of power with about 11,000 of those related to outages that occurred with the arrival of today’s second storm.
While most customers who lost power from the first storm have been restored, heavy snow, avalanche warnings, road closures, downed trees and fallen branches, and other access issues are impeding the ability of PG&E crews to make repairs in some areas. Additionally, the storm currently moving through Northern and Central California could hinder restoration efforts, and result in additional outage activity.
The current storm is not predicted to be as strong as the first, but is still expected to result in low-altitude snow across the Northern Coastal Range and Sierra Nevada areas as it moves throughout PG&E’s service area tonight and Thursday. PG&E’s meteorology team is anticipating peak gusts of 30-45 mph across the state, reaching as far south as the Santa Cruz Range and Merced County.
Restoration Details
This week’s winter storms have damaged PG&E’s infrastructure throughout the service area, with 125 poles, 174 transformers, 866 spans of wire and 163 cross-arms needing repair or replacement. Impacts have been most consequential in the Sierra, in the Santa Cruz Mountains and other areas of the Central Coast and up north in Humboldt and Mendocino counties.
This week, PG&E has 332 multi-person restoration crews available to make repairs and restore power. Additionally, on duty are 322 troublemen, who are the utility’s first responders to an outage, and 431 vegetation management workers who work to keep trees away from powerlines.
In all, 2,154 coworkers and contract personnel have boots on the ground in response to the weather. In addition, hundreds more PG&E employees staffed emergency centers and performed other jobs related to storm response.
Keeping Customers Informed
PG&E knows the importance of keeping its customers informed. Customers can view real-time outage information on its website outage center and search by a specific address, by city or by county. This site has been updated to include in-language support for 16 languages.
Additionally, customers can sign up for outage notifications by text, email or phone. PG&E will inform customers about the cause of an outage, when crews are on their way, the estimated restoration time, and when power is restored.
Storm Safety Tips
Other tips can be found at www.pge.com/beprepared.
About PG&E
PG&E, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.com and pge.com/news.
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