SACRAMENTO – Energy Safety issued its Annual Report on Compliance (ARC) today for San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E) 2023 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP). Energy Safety’s ARC evaluated SDG&E’s 2023 WMP initiatives from its approved 2023-2025 Base WMP.
Energy Safety’s evaluation found that SDG&E completed 38 of 48 or 79 percent of its 2023 initiative targets in its 2023-2025 Base WMP, including eight of the 10 initiatives with the largest planned expenditure. Although SDG&E did not meet 10 initiative targets, it was largely successful in removing risk from its system as originally planned.
Energy Safety’s primary objective is to ensure that electrical corporations reduce wildfire risk and comply with energy infrastructure safety measures. Energy Safety’s annual compliance evaluation is a comprehensive look at whether SDG&E’s completion of its 2023 WMP initiatives reduced the risk of its equipment igniting a catastrophic wildfire. And while SDG&E undertook efforts to reduce its wildfire risk, and in many instances achieved its initiative targets, Energy Safety’s ARC identified areas for improvement and opportunities for continued learning.
Energy Safety will continue to monitor SGD&E’s implementation of its ongoing wildfire mitigation initiative activities and push the company to improve its ability to ultimately eliminate utility-caused catastrophic wildfires in California.