SACRAMENTO – The Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety) today adopted its 2025 Safety Certification Guidelines following public review and comment. The guidelines set forth requirements electrical corporations must meet (PUC 8389(e)) for issuance of a safety certification.
The safety certification is designed to encourage electrical corporations to invest in safety and improve safety culture to reduce wildfire risks and costs. An electrical corporation with a safety certification is presumed to have acted reasonably in proceedings before the CPUC to recover costs of a utility-caused wildfire unless demonstrated otherwise.
A safety certification does not protect or shield an electrical corporation from liability. It also does not constitute an affirmation by Energy Safety that an electrical corporation has taken all possible steps to prevent its equipment from causing wildfires or is in full compliance with its wildfire mitigation plan or other laws and requirements.
A recording of the public adoption meeting may be found here. For more information visit Energy Safety’s Safety Certifications page and the Safety Certification FAQ.