LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said it’s going ahead with a public safety power shutoff set to begin on Wednesday evening due to a high wind event, but that it’s narrowed the shutoff’s scope and reduced the number of customers to be impacted.
The company said that changes in the weather forecast resulted in it reducing the number of customers expected to be impacted by 31 percent.
The PSPS event will now affect approximately 37,000 customers in targeted portions of 15 counties including Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Napa, Plumas, Santa Clara, Shasta, Sonoma, Tehama, Trinity and Yolo.
Lassen, Solano, Stanislaus and Yuba counties were removed from the shutoff’s scope, PG&E said.
In Lake County, previously PG&E had estimated that nearly 1,000 customers would be impacted in the Cobb, Clearlake Oaks, Lower Lake and Middletown areas.
In its late Wednesday afternoon report, PG&E said 127 Lake County customers – including six Medical Baseline customers – would be impacted.
Mapping of the outage area in Lake County shows that it continues to include some customers in Cobb, Lower Lake and Middletown, with Clearlake Oaks removed from the scope.
The PG&E website indicates that the customers in Lake County to be included in this new shutoff will have their power turned off between 4 and 6 a.m. Thursday.
With the reduced scope for Lake County, a community resource center is not planned to be opened, based on the PG&E website.
Portions of nearly all of Lake’s neighboring counties will be included in the shutoff, including Colusa, with four impacted customers; Glenn, 162 customers; Napa, 3,296 customers; Sonoma, 135 customers; and Yolo, 10 customers.
Once the weather all-clear is called on Friday, PG&E will begin power equipment inspections to find possible damage from the winds before reenergizing lines.
The company is maintaining a goal of restoring power to all impacted customers within 12 daylight hours after severe weather has passed.
More information can be found at PG&E’s website.
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