SACRAMENTO – The Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety) today issued its Annual Report on Compliance (ARC) for Liberty Utilities’ (Liberty) 2023 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP).
Energy Safety evaluated the 2023 WMP initiatives of Liberty’s approved 2023-2025 Base WMP and found that Liberty completed 33 of 39 or 85 percent of its 2023 initiative targets, including eight of the 10 initiatives with the largest planned expenditure. While Liberty failed to meet six of its 2023 WMP initiative activities and objectives, it was successful in executing its plan for wildfire risk mitigation. However, there are still areas of improvement and continued learning, primarily with properly documenting initiative progress and expenditures for the year. Energy Safety expects Liberty to improve the accuracy of its documentation going forward.
Energy Safety will continue to monitor Liberty’s implementation of its ongoing wildfire mitigation activities and push the company to improve its ability to ultimately eliminate utility-caused catastrophic wildfires in California.