Potential Public Safety Power Shutoff Period Begins

Is Edison serious? A monopolistic utility company is considering shutting off power to people in homes that are already required to be home unless for essential work and the temperature is at low of 41? At what point will Edison be required to supply neighborhoods with generators with small transmission lines limiting there powerline liability?

I still have my frozen gallon jugs in the garage freezer from the last PSPS. This is adding insult to injury. California needs new leadership at all levels. The lawyers must have decreed that the only solutions are shut down and power down. We need more creativity than that.

I finally got my notice from the county, not Edison. After reading about it in national newspapers and checking my area. I'm in SB City, certainly in what Edison's map says is at risk. No wind since early afternoon, but my trees were almost denuded in 2-3 hours starting by 11 am. today. Thanks, Edison.

Yeah, when everyone could get burned out they need to shut it down. Get used to it Shasta and Millimesa. We just got through a scheduled all day (8-8) power out in my neighborhood yesterday for upgrades. Sometimes you gotta deal with stuff. If your name's Shasta I'd think you'd have insight into the NorCal tradegies the last year or two up there. Cmon, think about it.

Edison is still half-baking the alert system after this long time! I signed up for phone, e-mails, voice, and am in the area of possible PSPS. Nothing came from Edison. County did send out text and e-mails.

Seems with the red flag condition and the wind advisory both already forecast for couple of days, they could have given us at least a day's notice that it MIGHT be necessary. I got my first notice just before 3pm. No wind here now at 7:20, near Sheffield Reservoir. Still air and cooling off at this point.

SCE and PGE may be monopolies, but they are heavily government regulated utilities. It’s easy to blame them for not taking care of infrastructure, but will the same degree of blame be placed on multi billion dollar regulatory mandates on alternative energy development thus preventing them having resources to harden their grids? Corporations can make stupid, greedy decisions, and governments can demand cost prohibitive stupid regulation. With a heavily regulated public utility, you get both: corporate stupid + government stupid that can no longer provide uninterruptible, safe, affordable power. It will take new government leadership and new corporate leadership to get affordable, safe, and uninterruptible power back in California.

you all are expecting alot from a company that paid all its profits out to the higher ups, now they dont have funds to even repair what they already have, let alone bury all of them.

heres capitalism at its best, over blown bloated monopoly that cant even manage their own infrastructure, but we are supposed to be happy with them.

I signed up for email notification via their psps website (for my zipcode) and like mtndriver, I got emailed early yesterday PM. Yes, some high winds were in the area prior to then, but I think the system worked fine this time.

There was a big fire near the Santa Paula Airport yesterday caused by a large tree blowing over into power lines. Evacuations were required. Isn't turning off the power in those lines for a few hours preferable to dealing with a fire?

Multi-day power outage when we are basically being told not to leave our homes. I swear they’re just trying to break out spirit now.

I guess that SCE is geographically challenged as our many local residents.
Their news release and phone messages include "The PSPS outage may impact multiple areas south of Gaviota to Carpinteria."

Just to keep it correct (and add a little humor) "south of Gaviota" is straight out into the Ocean. I do understand what they mean in this case. However, when incorrect geographic directions have been used by various agencies during evacuations, it can really confuse people.

Those of you who would like Edison to bury their above-ground lines, "Burying power lines costs roughly US$1 million per mile, but the geography or population density of the service area can halve this cost or triple it." So we are talking about a huge investment in infrastructure to do this. No way Edison has this $ sitting in a bank somewhere. So we are talking big tax increases, or shifting priorities from defense spending to line burying. Hard choices. https://theconversation.com/why-doesnt-the-u-s-bury-its-power-lines-104829

The answer is local alternative energy. Get rid of the unsightly, expensive, dangerous power lines. Even if we do spend the $$ to repair power lines, the problems of finite (gonna run out) fossil fuel resources and global warming still exist.
Electric cars are great when you don't think past the plug. Nuclear ? Nuclear power is the worst, both environmentally and economically. Proof: the Japanese 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster. "The Japan Center for Economic Research, a private think tank, said the cleanup costs could mount to some $470 billion to $660 billion, however." (Scientific American 2018) That doesn't include all the other expenses, like housing loss, medical, etc. , and who knows what else is happening on the ocean floor.

The answer is local alternative energy. Whatever is done it will cost us $$ one way or the other. I don't know who would be the company to build a local power structure with solar and wind, maybe SCEdison . The people and our local gov't would have to want it.
Reliable ? it could be . There are ways to locally store energy. We've got to stop taking the biggest hammer ( BIG POWER ) to solve our problems. "Soft energy Paths" by Amory Lovins is a book that explains how and why. He lectured in SB in the late 70's, which is when we should have gone in this direction. With our mountains, wind, and sun..... SB could be self-sufficent

I wish our highways were owned by industry, we could sue them for accidents and delays