Join the SCE Meeting on Wildfire Safety and Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) and Demand Change for Malibu’s Safety!
Tuesday, September 30, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Malibu City Hall and virtual
Join the meeting in-person or virtually and make your voices heard, join the City’s efforts to put pressure on SCE to make meaningful changes to their dangerous PSPS practices for the safety of our community!
SCE’S PSPSS THREATEN THE SAFETY OF LIVES AND HOMES
SCE’s Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) have left our entire community in total communications blackouts, as seen during the Franklin and Palisades fires, compounding the already life-threatening danger of wildfires. Without access to critical emergency information about evacuations, shelters, and road closures, residents cannot make informed decisions to protect their safety, and the City’s ability to provide emergency information, our top priority, is crippled. Long-lasting PSPS outages create obstacles to people’s ability to work, get to school, and commute, causing real economic and quality of life impacts.
Despite years of advocacy from the City, SCE has announced this summer that will implement more frequent and longer PSPSs this fire season while still failing to provide any mitigation measures such as backup power for traffic signals and cell phone towers.
In 2024, Malibu had three times more frequent outages than other SCE cities, and those outages lasted 30 times longer. While other cities, on average, got their power back within three hours, Malibu waited more than three days.
SCE has been authorized by the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) since 2018 to use Public PSPSs to proactively shut off power during hazardous fire weather (wind and humidity) to reduce the risk of their equipment causing a fire, often for days at a time, even without significant wind.
CALL TO ACTION
Register for the event and get the virtual meeting link.
See SCE's presentation.