EP.129 Katherine Blunt, Energy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Energy Unplugged by Aurora
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PG and PG Is Not on a Super Safe Footing.
In the interim here, as the company sort through how to make meaningful long term investments in risk reduction, it simply shuts off the power. So whether that be with warning, like they do something called a public safety power shot off and then the power might be off from anywhere from a few hours to like worst case a few days during the windiest season. They've also changed the settings on the power line so that if anything comes into contact with a line, why the line just trips off which has the potential to create a shorter outage. But essentially more frequent outages for certain customers.
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