The costs of California’s preventative power outages are likely to be staggering. 'We deserve to know if those costs have bought us any real safety,' writes marielgarzaLAT.
a “broken jumper"on a high-voltage line that had not been de-energized, though the low-voltage distribution lines around it had been.close to the ignition spots of two separate fires in Lafayette in Contra Costa County.Edison made a similar report earlier this month regarding a electrical transmission line that malfunctioned at the place where the Saddleridge fire started on Oct. 10.
Power lines and electrical equipment have been responsible for setting more than 2,000 fires since 2014, including November’s Camp fire, the deadliest wildfire in California’s recorded history. That fire was preceded by a similar report of a malfunctioning high-voltage line running through the Sierra foothills.
But when PG&E and Edison turned out the lights this month, the decisions seemed random. Why, for instance, were the high-voltage lines near Geyserville powered up even while the surrounding distribution lines had been shut down for safety reasons? The California Public Utilities Commission announced Monday that it was launching a formal investigation into the “public safety power shut-offs,” including an examination of the protocols the utilities used to decide when and how to shut off power.
The human, financial and environmental costs of the state’s unprecedented preventive power outages are likely to be staggering by any measure — thousands of fridges filled with spoiled food and medicine, lost paychecks from shuttered businesses, people hurt in accidents caused by traffic light outages, and untold amounts of greenhouse gasses spewed by diesel and gasoline generators. We deserve to know if those costs have bought us any real safety.
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