SACRAMENTO – Energy Safety today issued its Annual Report on Compliance (ARC) for the approved 2021 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) Update of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Energy Safety’s evaluation found that overall Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) had mixed outcomes related to implementation of its 2021 WMP Update.
PG&E completed the large majority of its 2021 WMP Update initiatives, including seven of the 10 initiatives with the largest allocated expenditure. PG&E also met its 2021 WMP Update objective of reducing the scope and impact of Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events. However, PG&E failed to meet two of its 2021 WMP Update objectives — to reduce ignition potential and wildfire spread during the 2021 compliance period.
Energy Safety has identified areas for improvement and continued learning that include ensuring PG&E improves its performance and learns from its experiences. Energy Safety continues to monitor PG&E’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.
Energy Safety is required to conduct an annual assessment of the electrical corporations’ implementation of their approved WMPs and WMP Updates.
The PG&E 2021 ARC is the last of the 2021 ARCs to be released. Previously released 2021 ARCs include San Diego Gas & Electric March 19, Southern California Edison April 3, Trans Bay Cable and Bear Valley Electric Service June 6, Horizon West Transmission June 24, and Liberty Utilities and PacifiCorp on June 21.