PG&E plans second SLO County power outage due to wildfire risk. Where and when?
A second public safety power shutoff may affect more PG&E customers in San Luis Obispo County this weekend.
The new alert comes amid an existing public safety power shutoff that cut electricity in San Miguel north of Estrella Road from Thursday afternoon through Saturday at 3 p.m. It was part of a larger planned outage that will impact communities along Highway 101 and Highway 198 in Monterey County.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, around 500 San Luis Obispo County PG&E customers living just south of the county line were experiencing shutoffs from the initial public safety power shutoff, according to the PG&E Outage Center.
The new potential public safety power shutoff outage in the North County area was announced by the San Luis Obispo County Office of Emergency Services on Friday morning.
According to a post on X from the Office of Emergency Services, additional locations east of San Miguel and in the Lake Nacimiento area were added to the public safety power shutoff watch due to high winds and dry conditions starting Saturday at 11:30 a.m., with power expected to be restored by 8 p.m. Sunday.
Along with SLO and Monterey, several other counties across California are also on alert for PSPS power outages:
- Alameda
- Colusa
- Fresno
- Glenn
- Kern
- Monterey
- San Benito
- San Joaquin
- San Luis Obispo
- Santa Barbara
- Shasta
- Stanislaus
- Sutter
- Tehama
- Trinity
According to PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff page, a planned outage can be called in the event of severe weather conditions such as low humidity, forecasted high winds, dry material on the ground, vegetation near power lines, red flag warnings from the National Weather Service and real-time ground observations.
