PG&E Corp. CEO Bill Johnson Issues Statement on Governor Letter
October 14 2019 - 6:34PM
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Company Plans Formal Response to Governor, CPUC
President
Today, Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation CEO Bill Johnson
issued the following statement on the letter from Governor Gavin
Newsom regarding the recent Public Safety Power Shutoff event.
“We’ve received the Governor’s letter and appreciate its intent
– to help make the State and all of us safer. First and most
important, during the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS), there
were no catastrophic wildfires started. We welcome the review of
our PSPS plan, practices and actions during the October 9-13
shutoff. We executed this event in accordance with our Wildfire
Mitigation Plan as approved by the California Public Utilities
Commission (CPUC), and under the guidelines of the CPUC’s
De-energization Order Instituting Rulemaking.
Before and during the event, we closely coordinated with the
CPUC and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and
CAL FIRE in our emergency operations center in San Francisco.
Representatives from those agencies were embedded in our Emergency
Operations Center and we welcomed and accepted their help and
counsel, and PG&E employees were also embedded at Cal OES in
Sacramento. We also worked closely with county and local officials
throughout the PSPS. We know there are areas where we fell short of
our commitment to serving our customers during this unprecedented
event, both in our operations and in our customer communications,
and we look forward to learning from these agencies how we can
improve.
We appreciate the significant impact that turning off power for
safety has on our customers and the state. While we recognize this
was a hardship for millions of people throughout Northern and
Central California, we made that decision to keep customers and
communities safe. That was the right decision.
We share the state’s focus on reducing the threat of
catastrophic wildfires in California, and that’s why we took this
action. We welcome inquiry and feedback from all our stakeholders,
including our regulators, lawmakers, customers and communities and
will be reaching out to them for comment in the days and weeks
ahead.”
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San
Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers
some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 16 million people in
Northern and Central California. For more information, visit
www.pge.com and www.pge.com/news.
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