Electricity: wildfire mitigation: deenergization events and reliability.
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Overview
This bill aims to improve electricity reliability and wildfire mitigation by requiring electrical corporations to develop plans to support vulnerable populations during deenergization events and to report on the frequency and duration of service interruptions. It also directs the Public Utilities Commission to assess and potentially revise existing policies to enhance electrical system safety and reliability, and requires electrical corporations to provide post-deenergization event reports with additional geospatial data and demographic information.
Key provisions
- Requires electrical corporations to develop and publicly share a plan to support vulnerable populations during deenergization events.
- Mandates electrical corporations to prepare and submit post-deenergization event reports, including geospatial data and demographic information.
- Directs the Public Utilities Commission to review and potentially revise existing policies for electrical system safety and reliability.
- Requires local publicly owned electric utilities to prepare and publicly post annual reliability reports.
- Specifies that annual reliability reports should include information on service interruptions and system-level reliability.
- Requires electrical corporations to conspicuously post annual reliability reports on their websites.
- Establishes a process for the commission to determine whether post-deenergization event reports should include additional information.
- Defines ‘access and functional needs population’ for the purpose of deenergization planning.
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