SACRAMENTO – Energy Safety today issued its Annual Report on Compliance (ARC) for the approved 2022 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) Update of Bear Valley Electric Service (BVES).
Energy Safety’s evaluation found that BVES completed 56 of 61 of its 2022 WMP initiatives, including eight of the 10 initiatives with the largest planned expenditure. However, of the five WMP initiatives BVES failed to execute, two were related to planned work on the Radford Line to replace 2.7 miles of bare wires with covered conductor and wood poles with fire resistant poles.
Energy Safety will continue to monitor BVES’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 ARCs for PG&E, Liberty Utilities, Southern California Edison, Horizon West Transmission, San Diego Gas and Electric, and PacifiCorp were released on Jan. 9, Nov. 8, Oct. 21, Sept. 24, Sept. 26, and Oct. 1, respectively. Additional ARCs on approved 2022 WMP Updates for the remaining electrical corporations will be released in the coming weeks.