SACRAMENTO – The Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety) today issued a revision notice to PacifiCorp for its 2026-2028 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP). The revision notice identified nine critical issues with PacifiCorp’s WMP that must be satisfactorily addressed for the plan to be considered for approval. PacifiCorp has 30 days to correct these issues and submit an updated plan. A public comment period will follow.
The nine critical issues include:
General
- RN-PC-26-01: PacifiCorp used the same tracking ID for multiple mitigation activities.
- RN-PC-26-02: Numerous PacifiCorp qualitative targets lack specificity and are not measurable.
Risk Methodology and Assessment
- RN-PC-26-03: PacifiCorp must provide greater consistency in explaining components of its risk model and provide transparency into the relationship between each component
Grid Design, Operations, and Maintenance
- RN-PC-26-04[JF1]: PacifiCorp’s combined targets for covered conductor and undergrounding do not allow for distinct, trackable targets.
- RN-PC-26-05: PacifiCorp did not discuss its equipment maintenance in the WMP narrative.
- RN-PC-26-06: PacifiCorp’s asset inspection quality assurance program does not provide targets for each of its six disparate asset inspection programs.
- RN-PC-26-07: Numerous PacifiCorp Grid Design, Operation, and Maintenance quantitative targets are not measurable.
Vegetation Management
- RN-PC-26-08: PacifiCorp does not prioritize vegetative work or set tracking of priorities, leaving vegetation close to energized infrastructure unremediated because of open work orders. [ND2]
Enterprise Systems
- RN-PC-26-09: PacifiCorp did not provide sufficient narrative for its asset identification process [ND3] and process for integrating 100 percent asset identification, or a justification for not having these processes in place.
Energy Safety’s revision notice includes required remedies for these critical issues that PacifiCorp must satisfactorily address or risk denial of it 2026-2028 WMP. Stakeholders will have an opportunity to submit comments following Energy Safety’s receipt of PacifiCorp’s revised plan.
The revision notice includes a timetable for the process. PacifiCorp’s revision notice response and revised plan is due Nov. 26, public comments are due Dec. 11 and reply comments are due Dec. 22. Energy Safety will issue a draft decision in February.