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PG&E briefs Solvang council on wildfire measures, explains Diablo Canyon licensing status
Summary
A PG&E representative told the Solvang City Council about expanded wildfire monitoring and mitigation work, how enhanced power-line settings and public-safety power shutoffs work, and why the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant’s licensing involves a 20‑year federal license alongside a five‑year state extension under SB846.
Eric Daniels, a representative of Pacific Gas & Electric, told the Solvang City Council that the utility has expanded weather and camera monitoring and is using operational mitigations to reduce wildfire risk from its lines.
Daniels said PG&E operates “a couple thousand weather stations throughout our system, and high‑definition cameras” and has “engaged a very, highly trained organization of meteorologists and fire experts” to monitor conditions. He described system upgrades including stronger poles, insulated lines in some areas, and vegetation work that he said prunes “about over 1,500,000 trees per year” across the utility’s service area.
Daniels explained two outage‑related mitigations to the council. Enhanced power‑line safety settings are automated protections that open circuits instantly if the equipment senses a fault;…
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