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Southern California Edison outlines PSPS procedures, customer resources and grid-hardening work for Carpinteria
Summary
SCE told the council about outage classifications, PSPS notification timelines, community resource centers, grid-hardening measures (covered conductor, targeted undergrounding) and programs for medically dependent customers; officials promised follow-up data on local outage causes.
Natalie Yanez, government relations manager for Southern California Edison, told the council how SCE notifies customers of outages and how the utility is working to reduce PSPS impacts through grid hardening and customer support.
Yanez described three outage types (planned maintenance, unplanned/repair, emergent) and two duration categories (momentary under five minutes, sustained over five minutes). She recommended that residents sign up for account-level alerts and the outage map and said non-account holders can register address-level alerts or PSPS alerts at the…
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