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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Friday, Oct. 25, 6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said Friday it was preparing for a \"potentially historic wind event\" across the state this weekend, and that as many as 850,000 customers in portions of 36 counties could have their power shut off from Saturday evening until Monday afternoon. The power shutoff could affect more than 2 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11778663\" label=\"\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility's warning of a similarly historic power blackout comes amid fears that very high winds, high temperatures and low humidity could spark devastating wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shutoffs beginning on Saturday would likely affect customers in Northern and Central California. As strong winds sweep southward, shutoffs on Sunday would affect portions of PG&E's entire service area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're preparing for a widespread service shutoff across our territory,\" PG&E Vice President Sumeet Singh said in a press briefing Friday evening, adding that the utility expects to make a decision on the shutoffs at 8:00 a.m. Saturday.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag='power-shutoffs' label='Related Coverage']\u003cbr>\nPG&E meteorologist Scott Strenfel said widespread wind gusts were expected to be 40 mph to 60 mph over most of the elevated terrain of Northern California, with peak gusts in isolated locations reaching 70 mph to 80 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Winds of this magnitude pose a higher risk of damage and sparks on the electric system and rapid wildfire spread,\" PG&E said. \"The fire risk is even higher because vegetation on the ground has been dried out by recent wind events.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility also said this weekend's wind event is likely to eclipse the strength of the one that fueled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/north-bay-fires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Bay firestorm\u003c/a> of October 2017. PG&E's predictive data models indicate the weather event could be the most powerful in California in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do think that it will be the strongest offshore wind event this season by a large margin and if models are correct, possibly the strongest offshore winds that we've seen in years,\" said Strenfel. \"There is high likelihood that damage will occur with this system ... this event will be a very serious event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1187806428473376768?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E warned blackouts could last until Monday afternoon, but emphasized that plans could change depending on the weather forecast. Contra Costa County officials earlier said they’d confirmed with PG&E that power would go out at 10 p.m. on Saturday, and stay out through Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Sheriff's Office \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs/status/1187523004592295936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also tweeted\u003c/a> that PG&E had notified them that the county would likely experience another shutoff from Saturday at 5 p.m. until early Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='kincade-fire' label='Kincade Fire']Alameda County sent out an AC Alert by text and email Friday that PG&E will disconnect power to approximately 57,000 residences and businesses in the county starting Saturday about 5 p.m. The alert said power is expected to be off for more than 48 hours: \"We encourage you to find alternative energy sources for light, charging devices and other necessities. Plan ahead with food and water, and make sure your grab-and-go emergency kits are ready.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of potentially more widespread and longer-lasting shutoffs came as PG&E worked to restore power to some 179,000 customers in 17 counties in the Bay Area and Sierra foothills, who’d had it turned off on Wednesday ahead of another extreme weather event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E CEO Bill Johnson said those customers would have their power restored before it is turned off again, but cautioned that might not happen in Sonoma County, where firefighters are battling the Kincade Fire that erupted Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have about 1,000 customers in Sonoma County who remain out of service due to the Kincade Fire,\" a PG&E official said late Friday afternoon. \"We believe we’ll be able to reduce that number to 700 customers by the end of Friday evening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E officials encourage customers who had their power shut off previously to charge all of their devices, including any necessary medical devices, before the next blackout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said Thursday that a failure on one of its high-voltage transmission lines \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782609/map-pge-transmission-lines-near-kincade-fire-ignition-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">occurred in the area of the Kincade Fire ignition point\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has forced approximately 2,000 people from their homes in Sonoma County. 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"content": "\u003cp>Californians are skeptical that PG&E needed to shut off power to millions of people in recent weeks to avoid wildfires, and overwhelmingly say the utility is handling the blackouts poorly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.changeresearch.com/pge-california-poll-oct-15-18\">according to a new poll\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://www.changeresearch.com/\">Change Research\u003c/a> provided exclusively to KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reflecting the tough choices in front of both PG&E and public officials, a majority of respondents — 55% — said they would rather lose power for several days than risk a wildfire, and just one-third of those polled said the decision to shut off power should be handed over to government officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Pat Reilly, Change Research co-founder\"]‘Californians have lost faith in large, Wall Street-driven publicly traded companies to put people first.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.changeresearch.com/pge-california-poll-oct-15-18\">online survey was conducted by Change Research\u003c/a> after the first round of shutoffs cut power to about 2 million residents earlier this month. Its release comes as PG&E begins another round of preemptive blackouts in Northern California: The utility\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781681/here-are-the-cities-that-could-be-affected-by-pge-power-shutoffs\"> plans to cut power to 179,000 customers in 17 counties\u003c/a> starting Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Change Research co-founder Pat Reilly said the poll shows growing dissatisfaction with PG&E, noting that the company’s unfavorability ratings have grown significantly in recent months — a dissatisfaction that transcends partisan divides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-1200x852.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E had a 49% unfavorable rating when we started our monthly California poll in February of this year. Eight months later, that has risen to 61% unfavorable,” she said, adding that only 9 percent of those polled rated the company favorably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians were evenly split on who should have the power to decide when to shut down power — about a third of respondents said the “utilities know best,” while another third said state regulators or government officials should make the call, and another third said they don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll indicates that the public doesn’t blame only PG&E for what’s happening: They’re also dissatisfied with Gov. Gavin Newsom, despite his vocal criticism of PG&E leadership management in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/22/governor-newsom-demands-pge-do-more-to-warn-customers-limit-scope-of-potential-pge-public-safety-power-shutoff/\">demanded\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/10.22.19-Letter.pdf\">letter to PG&E CEO Bill Johnson\u003c/a> that the utility do a better job communicating with customers and work to limit the number of people impacted by blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Newsom’s tough rhetoric, respondents gave the governor’s handling of the incident low marks — just 7 percent of those polled said his response to the blackouts was “excellent”; 33% rated it average or above-average; and 47% said the governor’s handling was below-average or very poor. Republicans were much harder on Newsom, with 83% saying he handled it “very” poorly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature got marks similar to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll.jpg 1441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokeswoman for Newsom said he shares the public’s frustration and that he’s continuing to work on solutions to help protect the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If PG&E had prioritized safety over profits and had updated their infrastructure like other utilities, we would not be in this situation,” said spokeswoman Vicky Waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is certainly frustrating for the governor and it’s no doubt frustrating for the public. The governor has aggressively held the utility accountable and also provided state personnel, state funding, and changes to state laws, to help reduce the fallout for Californians from PG&E’s decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11779330 label='Another Governor, Another Power Crisis' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gavin-Newsom-1020x680.jpg\"]Overall, just 20% of respondents said they viewed the first round of outages as necessary, with 53% saying they were not. And 63% rated PG&E’s handling of the incident below-average or very poor — a response that crossed party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things get more complicated when you dig a bit deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bad news for PG&E, a plurality of respondents — 40% — said they think PG&E should be broken up into smaller regional utilities; 30% supported a public takeover of the embattled utility. Just 1 percent backed what the poll called “a public bailout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And reflecting the growing frustration with PG&E, Californians appear to have soured on the entire investor-owned-utility structure, in which publicly traded companies get a monopoly to provide a utility to the public, and receive a guaranteed profit margin, but are regulated by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A solid 62% of those polled said it’s a bad idea to have a utility’s shares traded on Wall Street. And 77% agreed with the statement, “It’s always a bad idea to have investor owned public utilities. They’re more concerned about shareholders’ returns than creating a safe infrastructure for the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians have lost faith in large, Wall Street-driven publicly traded companies to put people first,” Reilly said. “The plurality of Californians, 40%, want the basics — light, power and public safety — to be managed by smaller, regional utilities that will prioritize community interest over investor interest. Another 30% want the state to take these companies over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-1200x887.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interestingly, just 18% of those polled blame inadequate PG&E equipment as the biggest driver of wildfires in recent years — even though the utility has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729842/pge-says-its-equipment-likely-caused-camp-fire-as-investigation-continues\">admitted fault\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747838/pge-blamed-for-sparking-deadly-camp-fire-now-what\">deadliest, most destructive wildfire in modern California history\u003c/a> and is blamed by state investigators for other destructive blazes in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, 30% said inadequate forest management was to blame for recent wildfires, and 29% said climate change is the culprit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflicting feelings among poll respondents in some ways mirror the evolving position of state lawmakers around how to deal with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"pge\"]Last year, in the wake of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/north-bay-fires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 North Bay Fires\u003c/a>, lawmakers rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682315/governor-jerry-brown-proposal-would-make-it-harder-to-sue-utilities-for-fire-damages\">efforts by PG&E and Gov. Jerry Brown to change liability laws\u003c/a> and make it harder to sue utilities that cause damage but didn’t act negligently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They balked after pressure from victims’ groups and insurance companies. But they also seemed reticent to back anything resembling a bailout for a company many lawmakers said they couldn’t trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But months later in 2018, the Legislature \u003cem>did\u003c/em> pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689873/california-legislature-passes-major-reforms-to-wildfire-law\">reforms aimed in part at keeping PG&E out of bankruptcy\u003c/a> — a route the utility \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717965/pge-announces-plans-for-bankruptcy-protection\">ultimately decided to take anyway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this summer, lawmakers and Newsom worked together to craft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760618/newsom-signs-wildfire-liability-bill-utility-customers-to-pay-10-5-billion-into-new-fund\">a bill\u003c/a> that will provide PG&E and other utilities some financial backstop moving forward, so that another utility doesn’t end up in bankruptcy court if it sparks another disastrous fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.changeresearch.com/pge-california-poll-oct-15-18\">online survey was conducted by Change Research\u003c/a> after the first round of shutoffs cut power to about 2 million residents earlier this month. Its release comes as PG&E begins another round of preemptive blackouts in Northern California: The utility\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781681/here-are-the-cities-that-could-be-affected-by-pge-power-shutoffs\"> plans to cut power to 179,000 customers in 17 counties\u003c/a> starting Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Change Research co-founder Pat Reilly said the poll shows growing dissatisfaction with PG&E, noting that the company’s unfavorability ratings have grown significantly in recent months — a dissatisfaction that transcends partisan divides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-1200x852.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E had a 49% unfavorable rating when we started our monthly California poll in February of this year. Eight months later, that has risen to 61% unfavorable,” she said, adding that only 9 percent of those polled rated the company favorably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians were evenly split on who should have the power to decide when to shut down power — about a third of respondents said the “utilities know best,” while another third said state regulators or government officials should make the call, and another third said they don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll indicates that the public doesn’t blame only PG&E for what’s happening: They’re also dissatisfied with Gov. Gavin Newsom, despite his vocal criticism of PG&E leadership management in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/22/governor-newsom-demands-pge-do-more-to-warn-customers-limit-scope-of-potential-pge-public-safety-power-shutoff/\">demanded\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/10.22.19-Letter.pdf\">letter to PG&E CEO Bill Johnson\u003c/a> that the utility do a better job communicating with customers and work to limit the number of people impacted by blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Newsom’s tough rhetoric, respondents gave the governor’s handling of the incident low marks — just 7 percent of those polled said his response to the blackouts was “excellent”; 33% rated it average or above-average; and 47% said the governor’s handling was below-average or very poor. Republicans were much harder on Newsom, with 83% saying he handled it “very” poorly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature got marks similar to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll.jpg 1441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokeswoman for Newsom said he shares the public’s frustration and that he’s continuing to work on solutions to help protect the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If PG&E had prioritized safety over profits and had updated their infrastructure like other utilities, we would not be in this situation,” said spokeswoman Vicky Waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is certainly frustrating for the governor and it’s no doubt frustrating for the public. The governor has aggressively held the utility accountable and also provided state personnel, state funding, and changes to state laws, to help reduce the fallout for Californians from PG&E’s decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Overall, just 20% of respondents said they viewed the first round of outages as necessary, with 53% saying they were not. And 63% rated PG&E’s handling of the incident below-average or very poor — a response that crossed party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things get more complicated when you dig a bit deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bad news for PG&E, a plurality of respondents — 40% — said they think PG&E should be broken up into smaller regional utilities; 30% supported a public takeover of the embattled utility. Just 1 percent backed what the poll called “a public bailout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And reflecting the growing frustration with PG&E, Californians appear to have soured on the entire investor-owned-utility structure, in which publicly traded companies get a monopoly to provide a utility to the public, and receive a guaranteed profit margin, but are regulated by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A solid 62% of those polled said it’s a bad idea to have a utility’s shares traded on Wall Street. And 77% agreed with the statement, “It’s always a bad idea to have investor owned public utilities. They’re more concerned about shareholders’ returns than creating a safe infrastructure for the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians have lost faith in large, Wall Street-driven publicly traded companies to put people first,” Reilly said. “The plurality of Californians, 40%, want the basics — light, power and public safety — to be managed by smaller, regional utilities that will prioritize community interest over investor interest. Another 30% want the state to take these companies over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-1200x887.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interestingly, just 18% of those polled blame inadequate PG&E equipment as the biggest driver of wildfires in recent years — even though the utility has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729842/pge-says-its-equipment-likely-caused-camp-fire-as-investigation-continues\">admitted fault\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747838/pge-blamed-for-sparking-deadly-camp-fire-now-what\">deadliest, most destructive wildfire in modern California history\u003c/a> and is blamed by state investigators for other destructive blazes in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, 30% said inadequate forest management was to blame for recent wildfires, and 29% said climate change is the culprit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflicting feelings among poll respondents in some ways mirror the evolving position of state lawmakers around how to deal with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:50 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With another round of windy, bone-dry weather blowing into Northern and Central California, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PGE4Me/status/1187051014924525571?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PG&E began shutting off power\u003c/a> to communities from the Bay Area to the Sierra foothills Wednesday afternoon to reduce the danger of its electrical lines touching off wildfires. On Wednesday night, the utility confirmed they may perform another round of shutoffs as early as this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility began shutoffs at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Sierra foothills and 3 p.m. in Sonoma and Napa counties, as forecasters expected warm, dry winds to ramp up toward dangerous levels. Approximately 179,000 customers in 17 counties could be affected by the public safety power shutoffs, also known as PSPS events, that began Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E will also black out customers in limited areas of San Mateo County and Kern County, with lines being de-energized in those locales about 1 a.m. Thursday.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID='science_1949669' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather models forecast high pressure building to the north, with gusty and dry winds across Northern California through midday Thursday morning, said PG&E chief meteorologist Scott Strenfel. The gusty winds coincide with a period of very low humidity, a combination of factors that will serve to wring moisture out of already dry vegetation and increase the wildfire hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility will begin restoring power to affected areas after winds taper off, which is expected between 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, PG&E confirmed in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pacificgasandelectric/videos/2363962200519271/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAT08AuMYiI3Kvg9zhniFi-KyCE4RIKp6Rfa3LUCmRavRvXIDWP9smwL3j9QW-8xKxah6eVLoacQJ6qM_Tar-RgajBdVq09QJF3n4WUJOCrNILdtkJmwF0MZONEHb0qzHZ67_jMXWDUDJFxhVtm2jL8Q20imKveQnkOYm0rHmfuQ7rVX0RkIoUtIo-bq3B_LO66hfebGuVZVlsFDXOS-k2aO6LBVJ_N7zwxPKyI26aQEYewmXQ3AQT_RYZ56FTf6hAcULiEbMnZJpb0cEYzHDzZcXBH0LHLZY4kHpE2wB29peBu19IsFCk1RYH-Z9TEyeC7O9-f1PBCff4hP-fxSPb6ZxUfNC6BwNP-ig&__tn__=-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference Wednesday night\u003c/a> that more shutoffs may be on the horizon this weekend or early next week. Some forecast models suggest it \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">could be the strongest wind event of the season,\" according to Strenfel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers affected by shutoffs during the week could also be impacted by the next round, but the utility plans to restore power before the second round strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our plan, given the projected all clear, is that we will have everybody restored who could be affected by the second one before it happens,\" said PG&E CEO Bill Johnson at the Wednesday night press conference. The utility said it is too early to estimate how many customers might be affected by the upcoming shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/22/governor-newsom-demands-pge-do-more-to-warn-customers-limit-scope-of-potential-pge-public-safety-power-shutoff/\">letter\u003c/a> to PG&E on Tuesday, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it could take up to 10 years for the utility to improve its system enough so it doesn't have to rely on power shutoffs to prevent wildfires during dry, windy conditions, Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781060/pge-power-safety-shutoffs-could-continue-for-10-years-says-ceo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said Friday \u003c/a>at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E executives said they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781060/pge-power-safety-shutoffs-could-continue-for-10-years-says-ceo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found about 100 instances\u003c/a> where high winds damaged or presented a hazard to electrical equipment during the shutoffs in early October. Most of the damage involved vegetation, like trees, grass or brush coming into contact with power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at where the damage occurred on the system, it’s exactly where we shut off the power,\" Johnson said Monday. “I think the scope was right. We might have turned it off a little quicker than we needed to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's equipment has been found responsible for starting the deadliest and most devastating wildfire in modern California history — last November's Camp Fire in Butte County, which killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the North Bay Fires that began in October 2017, fires caused by electrical equipment have killed more than 130 people and burned more than 20,000 homes statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson said Friday it could take up to 10 years for the utility to improve its system enough to not have to rely on power shutoffs to prevent wildfires during dry, windy conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson's comments came about a week after the utility cut power to about 2 million people in Northern and Central California, saying the outages were needed due to high winds and dry conditions that could spark wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who spoke at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utility Commission in San Francisco, said the number of power shutoffs will decline over the next decade as PG&E reroutes the electric grid so it can shut off power to smaller areas, invests in microgrids to keep power on during emergencies and updates thousands of miles of power lines in fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Pacific Gas and Electric Power Shutoffs\" tag=\"power-shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Public Utility Commission President Marybel Batjer began the meeting at CPUC headquarters by telling PG&E that their handling of the power shutoff was \"inadequate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can tell you that you guys failed on so many levels, on fairly simple stuff,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Johnson said that he was accountable for communication problems, he defended the shutoff, saying that the company did it for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that stands out in my mind is that we did not have any catastrophic fires in Northern and Central California. It’s hard to prove a negative,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also defended the utility's infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a misconception that we turned off power because our system is in shambles,\" Johnson said. \"Our system is in pretty good shape. The [public safety power shutoff] was driven by a widespread wind event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility executives said that they found about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779839/pge-confirms-50-instances-of-damage-or-hazard-to-its-equipment-during-outages\">100 instances where high winds damaged or presented a hazard to electrical equipment\u003c/a> during the shutoff. They said that most of the damage involved vegetation, like trees, grass or brush coming into contact with power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumeet Singh, vice president of PG&E's community wildfire safety program, estimated that it could take 10 to 14 years for the company to finish updating about 7,100 miles of power lines in high fire risk areas, and 8 years to improve vegetation management on 25,000 miles of lines in high-risk areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Commissioners Lambast PG&E for Failing to Assist People With Disabilities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the marathon hearing, commissioners repeatedly pushed executives on how they reached out to people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s most recent shutoff event affected more than 30,000 customers who take part in the utility’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/medical-condition-related/medical-baseline-allowance/medical-baseline-allowance.page\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">medical baseline program\u003c/a>. People who use powered medical devices, including oxygen concentrators and motorized wheelchairs, pay lower rates for gas and electricity by applying to the program with a doctor's note. Under rules approved by the commission, utilities now use medical baseline status to identify and warn vulnerable customers before and during a power shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11779283 label='Left in the Dark' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/20191010_124940-1020x765.jpg\"]But the program is an imperfect proxy for medically vulnerable communities, as Commissioner Liane M. Randolph noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officers and consumer advocates say that the program under-represents who’s at risk in a shutoff area. For instance, people who live in buildings that receive just one electric bill — or in mobile home communities — can’t register. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the medical baseline program itself dates back decades, it’s only this year that PG&E began to use it as a warning mechanism in this kind of emergency. At the same time, a spokesman for San Diego Gas & Electric, the utility that pioneered public safety shutoffs after the 2007 Witch Fire, pointed out that regulations make eligible people who declare that they need air conditioning to be comfortable for a variety of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not yet clear how well PG&E warned medical baseline customers about the most recent shutoff event. According to earlier filings with the CPUC, PG&E warns its medical baseline customers via text, email or automated call. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the customer doesn't confirm the warning, the utility will send someone out to knock on the door, said PG&E Senior Vice President Laurie M. Giammona. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nobody answers the door, the utility hangs a tag, and considers the outreach successful. Giammona said that PG&E workers left door tags for about 700 people last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Kaplan of Oakland, who uses an electric chair, bed and ventilator and requires the use of an elevator, explained that being notified about power shutoffs \"isn't all that helpful.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is going to be a reality that we're going to have to get used to, then people who rely on power for survival need to have backup,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Kaplan (left) of Oakland and Marge Hall (right) of Berkeley waited 3.5 hours to speak during the public comment portion of Friday's CPUC meeting in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781232\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Kaplan (left) of Oakland and Marge Hall (right) of Berkeley waited 3.5 hours to speak during the public comment portion of Friday's CPUC meeting in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The CPUC’s head of safety and enforcement policy, Elizaveta Malashenko, told lawmakers in August that the medical baseline program wasn’t designed for emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves also wondered why some communities got backup generators, when others didn’t. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Was wealth a factor?\" she asked PG&E's Singh about why Calistoga got a generator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said that was not the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>PG&E Executives Detail Communication Breakdowns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>PG&E's Giammona said that the utility had not anticipated the number of people who would access the website. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that about 1.7 million users per hour were trying to use the PG&E website during the power shut offs. Normally, only about 7,000 users access the site per hour on a regular day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC President Batjer, who was present for some of PG&E’s decision making during the shutoff, said that employees too junior to make important decisions about technology were the ones tasked with system testing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"CPUC President Marybel Batjer listens as PG&E executives speak at an emergency meeting in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781226\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CPUC President Marybel Batjer listens as PG&E executives speak at an emergency meeting in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said that she was \"astonished at the lack of infrastructure\" for a company of PG&E's size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batjer noted that dozens of local governments complained that they could not reach PG&E during the shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E executives described calls with county and tribal governments where more than 1,000 people from local and tribal governments were on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today a parade of PG&E executives told us what we already know — their October [power shutoff] was a massive failure in execution,\" state Sen. Jerry Hill told KQED via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill has been a consistent critic of PG&E since 2010, when one of the utility's natural gas transmission lines exploded in San Bruno, killing eight people in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s good to know they are attempting to belatedly rebuild their support services to meet customer needs ... But it would have been better for PG&E leaders to detail exactly why it’s going to take them 10 years to build the resilient electrical system we should already have, so that power shutdowns are truly a rare, last resort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Senate opened its own investigation into how PG&E handled the shutoff on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Molly Peterson contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the program is an imperfect proxy for medically vulnerable communities, as Commissioner Liane M. Randolph noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officers and consumer advocates say that the program under-represents who’s at risk in a shutoff area. For instance, people who live in buildings that receive just one electric bill — or in mobile home communities — can’t register. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the medical baseline program itself dates back decades, it’s only this year that PG&E began to use it as a warning mechanism in this kind of emergency. At the same time, a spokesman for San Diego Gas & Electric, the utility that pioneered public safety shutoffs after the 2007 Witch Fire, pointed out that regulations make eligible people who declare that they need air conditioning to be comfortable for a variety of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not yet clear how well PG&E warned medical baseline customers about the most recent shutoff event. According to earlier filings with the CPUC, PG&E warns its medical baseline customers via text, email or automated call. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the customer doesn't confirm the warning, the utility will send someone out to knock on the door, said PG&E Senior Vice President Laurie M. Giammona. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nobody answers the door, the utility hangs a tag, and considers the outreach successful. 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"content": "\u003cp>Linguine with clams. Chicken marsala. Osso bucco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These dishes weren’t hitting tables during the dinner rush at Taverna Pellegrini in Orinda late last week. Instead, their ingredients wound up in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this stuff here had gone bad,” said owner Dario Hadjian, standing in the walk-in fridge. “The only other way to find out is if someone gets sick, and I wasn’t going to take that chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant remained closed as the rolling blackouts left the area without power from Oct. 9 to last Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=science_1948951,news_11779299,news_11779283,news_11779839]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadjian says he threw out up to $1,500 worth of prepared food and ingredients — a substantial loss for a small restaurant, on top of having to close for a couple days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taverna Pellegrini is one of more than 700,000 PG&E customers that didn’t have electricity last week during the planned power shutoffs. 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Southern California Edison cut power to over 10,000 customers last week due to heightened fire risk from weather conditions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jeff Smith, PG&E spokesperson\"]‘We understand that, in some instances, [it’s] much more than just an inconvenience. That it’s a real hardship.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Weissman, a lecturer at UC Berkeley and a former administrative law judge at the PUC, says these kinds of planned power outages are likely the new normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he says the utility should do more to assist customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E can be cheerleaders for having onsite generation and storage, rather than resisting it,” Weissman said. “They could be champions of something called microgrids where various customers can loop themselves with a dedicated circuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microgrids, he says, could protect customers from losing power in future outages. 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We live in wildfire and earthquake country — this is just absolutely untenable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local disability rights activists were particularly outraged by a Twitter message that the city of Berkeley sent on Tuesday in advance of the power outage. In response to one activist about what help would be available for people with disabilities, the city wrote in a tweet, \"We are asking those in the potentially affected area who are power-dependent for medical reasons to use their own resources to get out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CityofBerkeley/status/1182060341129179137\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash was immediate and passionate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This...is not AT ALL how a city should handle a situation like this,\" Emily Ladau tweeted in response. \"You don't ask disabled people and people with medical conditions to use their own resources to evacuate for a situation they didn't cause and that wasn't an unexpected emergency. Do better. Do way better. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Sunday at 10:00 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E crews \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/12/psps-update-all-customers-impacted-by-safety-shutoffs-have-now-been-restored/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restored power\u003c/a> to the entire Bay Area on Saturday afternoon, three days after electricity was cut — in an unprecedented and controversial move by utility officials — in large parts of Northern and Central California due to weather conditions that could potentially spark wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of approximately 738,000 PG&E customers lost electricity in the shutoffs from counties near the Oregon border to Kern County in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PGE4Me/status/1183197483586981888\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779285/life-in-pges-blackout-outrage-and-optimism-on-day-2-of-outages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late Thursday\u003c/a> that the weather had improved enough for crews to begin safety inspections and restoration work in the 35 counties where customers had their electricity cut — except for Kern County in the Central Valley at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has identified 23 instances of weather-related damage to its system in the shutoff areas. PG&E didn’t specify what those damages were but said it was making repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous shutoffs, such weather-related damage included wind knocking down power lines, and trees or vegetation tangled in the lines, said PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith.\u003cbr>\n[aside label=\"more shutoff coverage\" tag=\"power-shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New PG&E safety patrols and inspections were taking place in the state’s upper reaches in Butte, Plumas and Yuba counties. In some areas, crews would have to do their work by vehicle or helicopter — the quickest way — or on foot, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why it was taking longer to restore power in counties like Napa and Sonoma, Smith said, \"A lot of it really depends upon the geography of the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"Some areas of the county that may be a little bit more remote or difficult to access, sometimes there are challenges ... in being able to make the necessary inspections\" to complete the restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most customers could expect power to come back within 48 hours after the weather event has passed through the area, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11779661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E power lines in Oakland during an unprecedented power cut by the utility to a large swaths of Northern and Central California on Oct. 1, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E power lines in Oakland during an unprecedented power cut by the utility to a large swaths of Northern and Central California on Oct. 1, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shutoffs, which began early Wednesday and continued Thursday, were aimed at reducing the risk of wildfires that could be ignited by electrical equipment, amid red flag conditions. As the outages began, lawmakers and residents expressed frustration over the rollout and the widespread nature of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday evening that the decision to turn off power was due to the utility's inability to modernize infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's happened is unacceptable,\" Newsom said. \"It's happened because of neglect. It's happened because of decisions that were deferred, delayed or not made by the largest investor-owned utility in the state of California, one of the largest in the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the future, Newsom said, the state and its residents shouldn't have to make a \"false choice\" between public safety and hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This can't be, respectfully, the new normal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Thursday, Bill Johnson, PG&E’s new president and CEO, apologized to customers: \"This is not how we want to serve you, not how we want to run our business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said the utility did choose safety over hardship: \"I do apologize for the hardship this has caused, and I think we made the right call on safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said the company will likely have to make decisions on power shutoffs in the future and acknowledged it could have done better communicating with customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were not adequately prepared to support the operational event,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the shutoffs, the company's website crashed, maps of affected areas were inconsistent or incorrect and call centers were overloaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Valle, a Sonoma County spokeswoman, said PG&E informed local officials that nearly all residents should have their power turned back on by late Friday. She said the county is sending residents a survey to see how the shutoffs impacted them — even if they didn't lose electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, some 1.8 million to 2.4 million people may have been impacted by the cuts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779072/how-the-pge-outages-could-affect-millions-not-hundreds-of-thousands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Stanford University climate and energy expert Michael Wara on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those affected included more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779289/pge-power-shutoffs-keeping-over-130000-kids-home-from-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">130,000 students\u003c/a> across the state, whose schools shuttered for at least one day this week, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779153/its-not-just-lights-and-tvs-outages-shut-off-medical-devices-at-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people with health conditions\u003c/a> who rely on electricity to power medical devices at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man dependent on oxygen died about 12 minutes after PG&E shut down power early Wednesday in the Northern California community of Pollock Pines, the Associated Press reported. 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In some areas, crews would have to do their work by vehicle or helicopter — the quickest way — or on foot, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why it was taking longer to restore power in counties like Napa and Sonoma, Smith said, \"A lot of it really depends upon the geography of the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"Some areas of the county that may be a little bit more remote or difficult to access, sometimes there are challenges ... in being able to make the necessary inspections\" to complete the restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most customers could expect power to come back within 48 hours after the weather event has passed through the area, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11779661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E power lines in Oakland during an unprecedented power cut by the utility to a large swaths of Northern and Central California on Oct. 1, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge-shutoffs_bay-area_oakland-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E power lines in Oakland during an unprecedented power cut by the utility to a large swaths of Northern and Central California on Oct. 1, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shutoffs, which began early Wednesday and continued Thursday, were aimed at reducing the risk of wildfires that could be ignited by electrical equipment, amid red flag conditions. As the outages began, lawmakers and residents expressed frustration over the rollout and the widespread nature of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday evening that the decision to turn off power was due to the utility's inability to modernize infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's happened is unacceptable,\" Newsom said. \"It's happened because of neglect. It's happened because of decisions that were deferred, delayed or not made by the largest investor-owned utility in the state of California, one of the largest in the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the future, Newsom said, the state and its residents shouldn't have to make a \"false choice\" between public safety and hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This can't be, respectfully, the new normal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Thursday, Bill Johnson, PG&E’s new president and CEO, apologized to customers: \"This is not how we want to serve you, not how we want to run our business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said the utility did choose safety over hardship: \"I do apologize for the hardship this has caused, and I think we made the right call on safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said the company will likely have to make decisions on power shutoffs in the future and acknowledged it could have done better communicating with customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were not adequately prepared to support the operational event,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the shutoffs, the company's website crashed, maps of affected areas were inconsistent or incorrect and call centers were overloaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Valle, a Sonoma County spokeswoman, said PG&E informed local officials that nearly all residents should have their power turned back on by late Friday. She said the county is sending residents a survey to see how the shutoffs impacted them — even if they didn't lose electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, some 1.8 million to 2.4 million people may have been impacted by the cuts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779072/how-the-pge-outages-could-affect-millions-not-hundreds-of-thousands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Stanford University climate and energy expert Michael Wara on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those affected included more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779289/pge-power-shutoffs-keeping-over-130000-kids-home-from-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">130,000 students\u003c/a> across the state, whose schools shuttered for at least one day this week, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779153/its-not-just-lights-and-tvs-outages-shut-off-medical-devices-at-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people with health conditions\u003c/a> who rely on electricity to power medical devices at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man dependent on oxygen died about 12 minutes after PG&E shut down power early Wednesday in the Northern California community of Pollock Pines, the Associated Press reported. El Dorado County Fire Chief Lloyd Ogan said the man's oxygen equipment required power but could not say whether the shutoff was related to his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to questions this week about power blackouts affecting hundreds of thousands of PG&E customers in Northern and Central California, he had to be thinking about a similar crisis that confronted another governor 18 years ago: Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis inherited a deregulated energy market from \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/95-96/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1890_bill_960924_chaptered.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bill\u003c/a> passed without opposition in 1996 after a huge lobbying campaign funded by three private utility companies, including PG&E and Southern California Edison. It required utilities to transfer operational control of their transmission lines to an independent agency known as the Independent System Operator, or ISO. It also created incentives for utilities to sell off their generating plants to private companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"PG&E Power Shutoffs\" tag=\"power-shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Pete Wilson signed the bill and energy deregulation took effect in 1998, the year Davis was elected. It was intended to increase competition in the electricity market, and initially customers saw a drop in energy prices. But Davis soon found his agenda upended by a debacle that was largely out of his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By May of 2000, the state power grid was short of power, initiating months of planned rolling blackouts and surging prices for electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Davis' State of the State address in January 2001 was used to address California's energy crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While saying \"our job today is not to engage in an ideological debate over the pros and cons of deregulation,\" he reminded the assembled legislators that he had nothing to do with creating the crisis, adding that proponents of deregulation \"certainly didn't envision this mess, but we must face reality. California's deregulation scheme is a colossal and dangerous failure. In short, an energy nightmare.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a \u003cem>political\u003c/em> nightmare for Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a period of four months in early 2001, his polling numbers completely collapsed,\" recalled Garry South, who was Davis's senior political adviser before and during the energy crisis. \"It was shocking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11779388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-800x625.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Gray Davis (L) wipes his brow after delivering a press statement on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, after testifying in Congress on June 20, 2001 as then-Rep. Xavier Becerra (R), D-CA, listens. Davis blamed a Republican-led energy regulatory agency for not helping during California's energy crisis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-800x625.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-1020x797.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-1200x938.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gray Davis (L) wipes his brow after delivering a press statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., after testifying in Congress on June 20, 2001, as then-Rep. Xavier Becerra (R), D-CA, listens. Davis blamed a Republican-led energy regulatory agency for not helping during California's energy crisis. \u003ccite>(STEPHEN JAFFE/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steven Maviglio, who was Davis' press secretary at the time, recalled an \"all hands on deck\" mentality in the governor's office. The governor urged Californians to conserve energy to help ease the supply-and-demand problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Little did we know there was an invisible hand called Enron behind everything ... which we learned only after the governor was recalled,\" Maviglio told KQED this week. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/enron/timeline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enron\u003c/a> was able to exploit weaknesses in California's law, generating huge profits for themselves while contributing to the state's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Davis grappled with the crisis — urging conservation and fast-tracking new power plants to increase the supply of electricity — California continued experiencing rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Political consultant Garry South\"]'The morning after [Gray Davis] gives a statewide address saying how we would get things under control, PG&E basically fucks him by going out and announcing that they're filing for bankruptcy.'[/pullquote]South remembers \"all these loudmouths who were running around calling Davis a wimp because he didn't send in the National Guard to take over the plants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course it was much more complicated than that anyway. The problem was less the utilities than the outside companies like Enron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, South said, \"you always have to calibrate big bold actions that you would take against the utility and the potential downsides of those actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Davis, Newsom inherited this problem. There have been years of neglect by PG&E, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767619/monitors-spot-check-of-pge-wildfire-safety-effort-finds-missed-trees-recordkeeping-errors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed to properly trim trees near power lines\u003c/a>. PG&E's negligence was ultimately blamed for downed lines that sparked some of the worst fires, including the devastating ones in Napa and Sonoma counties two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PG&E electrical transmission line was also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747485/cal-fires-official-finding-pge-equipment-touched-off-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found to be responsible for sparking the Camp Fire\u003c/a> last year — the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E transmission line towers on the Caribou-Palermo line are seen adjacent to the Feather River in Butte County, near the spot where the Camp Fire began. In February, PG&E said it's "probable" that its equipment caused the blaze, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history. Cal Fire investigators later confirmed that to be the case.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transmission towers on PG&E's Caribou-Palermo line are seen adjacent to the Feather River in Butte County, near the spot where the Camp Fire began. In February, PG&E said it's \"probable\" that its equipment caused the blaze, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history. Cal Fire investigators later confirmed that to be the case. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just last week, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101873712/governor-newsom-signs-22-bills-to-prevent-and-fight-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a package of 22 wildfire-related bills\u003c/a>, including ones aimed at requiring companies to properly maintain their equipment by keeping trees away from utility lines. Bills authored by state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, should help mitigate the negative impact of planned power shutdowns and provide independent audits of utilities' tree trimming efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maviglio thinks Newsom should respond more forcefully to the blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this continues, there has to be a longer-term strategy,\" Maviglio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are options out there. Putting more microgrids on the line. Being way more aggressive in cutting back some of the trees that caused this thing — that's all within the control of government,\" Maviglio said. \"Here we are in a state that runs on electricity, the leader in technology and [that] we don't have the power to make those tools work seems kind of weird.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, as Newsom was surrounded by reporters asking what he planned to do about the outages, he initially noted that \"it is up to them (PG&E) to make the determination of what's in the best interest of their customers they serve, in partnership and counsel with the Office of Emergency Services, Cal Fire and the experts in this field.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that \"it is a massive inconvenience. 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Gavin Newsom takes questions this week about PG&E power shutoffs in the Bay Area.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Garry South, who worked with Newsom on his short-lived campaign for governor, which ended when Jerry Brown jumped in, recalled with a simmering rage how PG&E made matters worse for Davis in the midst of the energy crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The morning after he (Davis) gives a statewide address saying how we would get things under control, PG&E basically fucks him by going out and announcing that they're filing for bankruptcy. And so it was ugly,\" South said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempting as it is to blame PG&E, which South describes as \"an arrogant and out-of-touch company that people despise,\" he adds, \"the average customer doesn't really care who the CEO of the company is. They don't care who is on the board. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Pete Wilson signed the bill and energy deregulation took effect in 1998, the year Davis was elected. It was intended to increase competition in the electricity market, and initially customers saw a drop in energy prices. But Davis soon found his agenda upended by a debacle that was largely out of his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By May of 2000, the state power grid was short of power, initiating months of planned rolling blackouts and surging prices for electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Davis' State of the State address in January 2001 was used to address California's energy crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While saying \"our job today is not to engage in an ideological debate over the pros and cons of deregulation,\" he reminded the assembled legislators that he had nothing to do with creating the crisis, adding that proponents of deregulation \"certainly didn't envision this mess, but we must face reality. California's deregulation scheme is a colossal and dangerous failure. In short, an energy nightmare.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a \u003cem>political\u003c/em> nightmare for Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a period of four months in early 2001, his polling numbers completely collapsed,\" recalled Garry South, who was Davis's senior political adviser before and during the energy crisis. \"It was shocking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11779388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-800x625.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Gray Davis (L) wipes his brow after delivering a press statement on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, after testifying in Congress on June 20, 2001 as then-Rep. Xavier Becerra (R), D-CA, listens. Davis blamed a Republican-led energy regulatory agency for not helping during California's energy crisis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-800x625.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-1020x797.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001-1200x938.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gray-Davis-Capitol-Energy-2001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gray Davis (L) wipes his brow after delivering a press statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., after testifying in Congress on June 20, 2001, as then-Rep. Xavier Becerra (R), D-CA, listens. Davis blamed a Republican-led energy regulatory agency for not helping during California's energy crisis. \u003ccite>(STEPHEN JAFFE/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steven Maviglio, who was Davis' press secretary at the time, recalled an \"all hands on deck\" mentality in the governor's office. The governor urged Californians to conserve energy to help ease the supply-and-demand problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Little did we know there was an invisible hand called Enron behind everything ... which we learned only after the governor was recalled,\" Maviglio told KQED this week. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/enron/timeline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enron\u003c/a> was able to exploit weaknesses in California's law, generating huge profits for themselves while contributing to the state's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Davis grappled with the crisis — urging conservation and fast-tracking new power plants to increase the supply of electricity — California continued experiencing rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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PG&E's negligence was ultimately blamed for downed lines that sparked some of the worst fires, including the devastating ones in Napa and Sonoma counties two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PG&E electrical transmission line was also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747485/cal-fires-official-finding-pge-equipment-touched-off-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found to be responsible for sparking the Camp Fire\u003c/a> last year — the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E transmission line towers on the Caribou-Palermo line are seen adjacent to the Feather River in Butte County, near the spot where the Camp Fire began. In February, PG&E said it's "probable" that its equipment caused the blaze, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history. Cal Fire investigators later confirmed that to be the case.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transmission towers on PG&E's Caribou-Palermo line are seen adjacent to the Feather River in Butte County, near the spot where the Camp Fire began. In February, PG&E said it's \"probable\" that its equipment caused the blaze, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history. Cal Fire investigators later confirmed that to be the case. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just last week, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101873712/governor-newsom-signs-22-bills-to-prevent-and-fight-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a package of 22 wildfire-related bills\u003c/a>, including ones aimed at requiring companies to properly maintain their equipment by keeping trees away from utility lines. Bills authored by state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, should help mitigate the negative impact of planned power shutdowns and provide independent audits of utilities' tree trimming efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maviglio thinks Newsom should respond more forcefully to the blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this continues, there has to be a longer-term strategy,\" Maviglio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are options out there. Putting more microgrids on the line. Being way more aggressive in cutting back some of the trees that caused this thing — that's all within the control of government,\" Maviglio said. \"Here we are in a state that runs on electricity, the leader in technology and [that] we don't have the power to make those tools work seems kind of weird.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, as Newsom was surrounded by reporters asking what he planned to do about the outages, he initially noted that \"it is up to them (PG&E) to make the determination of what's in the best interest of their customers they serve, in partnership and counsel with the Office of Emergency Services, Cal Fire and the experts in this field.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that \"it is a massive inconvenience. No one wants to see this happen, but it is public safety issue, so we can avoid the occurrences we've experienced the last two years, which have been historic and devastating wildfires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11779229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom takes questions this week about PG&E power shutoffs in the Bay Area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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