Southern California Edison (SCE) held a streamed meeting Thursday evening to talk about their efforts to reduce the use of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) for the Santa Clarita Valley. PSPS are intentional power shut-offs initiated by SCE to reduce the threat of wildfires in high-risk conditions, like when winds are high and humidity is low. “Our goal is to ...

Southern California Edison (SCE) is exploring and implementing changes to its Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) approach due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with officials taking safer-at-home orders into account while still working to mitigate wildfire threats. SCE first exercised PSPS as a way of managing wildfire risks on Dec. 7, 2017. Although PSPS activity was “minimal” in 2017 and 2018, ...