Tuesday, August 18, 2020

David P. Donery, Town Manager

In response to California Independent System Operator (CAISO)
recent calls for utilities to reduce load by instituting rotating
outages, PG&E has developed a tool to help customers see
how they might be affected

Rotating outages are organized by circuit blocks dispersed across PG&E's service area and sequenced to minimize the amount of disruption for each customer.
 
The online tool at PGE.com/rotatingoutages allows customers to look up their circuit block and sub-block. They can then look for their block and sub-block on a table of forecasted outages for the day. 
 
With the heatwave expected to continue at least through Thursday night, PG&E strongly encourages all customers to continue conserving to reduce overall power demand. 
 

HOW TO USE THE ROTATING OUTAGE LOOKUP TOOL

• Use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Edge Chromium browsers
• Go to PGE.com/rotatingoutages
• Click on “Look up your rotating outage block number.”
• Enter your address
• Read your block and sub-block.
• Find your block and sub-block on the table. 
• If your block or sub-block does not appear you are not expected to be subject to a rotating outage.
• If your block and sub-block do appear, you could be subject to an outage of up to three hours in the event CAISO calls for rolling outages because the state’s power demand is within 3 percent of available supply.