SACRAMENTO – Energy Safety today issued its Annual Report on Compliance (ARC) for the approved 2022 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) Update of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). Energy Safety’s evaluation found that SDG&E completed 69 of 75 of its 2022 WMP initiatives, including nine of the ten initiatives with the largest planned expenditure.
Of the six initiatives that SDG&E did not complete only one (failure to complete seven miles of grid hardening work) had a substantial impact on risk reduction activities in 2022. While SDG&E achieved its overarching objectives, Energy Safety has identified areas for continued improvement and learning.
Energy Safety will continue to monitor SGD&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 ARC for Horizon West Transmission was released on Sept. 24. Additional ARCs on approved 2022 WMP Updates for the remaining electrical corporations are scheduled to be released in the coming weeks.