PSPS Event Begins in Sierra Foothills - Could be a precursor

Attached find details from KCRA and PG&E regarding the current PG&E Public
Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) event affecting about 24,000 PG&E customers in
the Sierra foothills.

As the KCRA TV-3 Sacramento story notes, this event could be a precursor
to future PG&E PSPS events during September, October, and November. Note
the 2018 Camp fire started on November 8, 2018, in Butte County, in
Northern California.

CGNP believes that future, larger scale PSPS events will have harmful
impacts outside of the PSPS event area as power transmission lines (Such
as the PG&E Caribou-Palermo Line that caused the Camp Fire) must also be
turned off. This could prevent the flow of power from PG&E's 169
hydroelectric dams in the Sierra foothills, making the large Diablo Canyon
Power Plant (DCPP) essential for public safety and welfare in the PG&E
service territory. PSPS events will be occurring for the foreseeable
future. Thus, DCPP should continue to run beyond 2025 to protect
California public safety and welfare.

As an Intervenor, CGNP has advanced this analysis in California Public
Utilities Commission (CPUC) Proceeding R1602007 involving the near-term
reliability of the California power grid. Additional details are
available.

Gene Nelson, Ph.D.  CGNP Legal Assistant
Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc. (CGNP)
1375 East Grand Ave Ste 103 #523
Arroyo Grande, CA 93420-2421
(805) 363 - 4697 cell
Government@CGNP.org email
http://CGNP.org  website

PG&E shuts off power to 24,000 customers

due to wildfire risk Residents in Butte, Nevada and Yuba counties impacted Updated: 11:10 PM PDT Sep 23, 2019

https://www.kcra.com/article/pge-power-shutoffs-northern-calfiornia-wildfire/29188396