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Wildfire Safety Advisory Board adopts advisory opinions for publicly owned utilities and cooperatives
Summary
The board unanimously adopted its 2025 advisory opinions for publicly owned utilities and cooperatives, emphasizing improved risk identification and carefully planned preemptive deenergization (PSPS) programs while acknowledging community impacts and the need for utility-specific approaches. Six votes in favor, none opposed.
The California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board voted unanimously Dec. 3 to adopt its 2025 advisory opinion to publicly owned utilities (POUs) and electric cooperatives, a document that spotlights risk identification and the careful use of preemptive deenergization, often called Public Safety Power Shutoffs.
Board staff framed the advisory opinion around two priorities: improving how utilities identify ignition and consequence risk at the circuit level, and ensuring that any preemptive deenergization program be built on planning, testing and mitigation for vulnerable populations. Gifford Wong, staff lead on the opinion, told the board the…
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