Edison says that it finance fire fighting and the Hotspot monitoring on the plan to reduce the forest fire risk – Pasadena Star News

With a legal examination of his possible role in the Eaton Fire in January, Südkalifornia Edison published his long -term plan to reduce forest fire risks caused by its equipment on Friday.

According to the plan that the Rosemead based on Friday, the Ethreue Year plan submitted to the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety on Friday.

Company officials also said that the plan corresponds to the state’s state efforts, which include air control in the entire service sector of the company. Part of the plan includes SCE financing of such assets.

“We developed our three-year plan with a layered defense strategy to protect our communities from forest fire threats,” said Steven Powell, President and CEO of SCE. “The heartbreaking forest fires in January in southern California underline the importance and urgency in the further development of reductions and the use of new instruments to increase the resilience and safety of the infrastructure. While the risk of forest fire can never be completely eliminated, we further harden the network and invest in innovative approaches as close as possible to zero.”

This hardening includes technology that quickly recognizes earth errors and limits the voltage when a line contacts the floor. The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning that SCE says would improve the inspections of the network and at the same time meet the maintenance needs. Use of satellite images for more effective vegetation management in its equipment; Other lines in the underground; And many other monitors that would help to recognize failures earlier.

The plan also requires more communication with customers about the switching closings of public security (PSPS -if the utility temporarily switches off the power supply to your neighborhood for reasons of public security reasons), more inspections and the trimming of vegetation that could turn to the lines.

According to Powell, the reduction strategy develops when the suppliers are balanced, security and technology.

The plan of 6 billion US dollars comes when the company’s shareholders could be the expensive costs of a possible liability for the Eaton fire, which destroyed more than 9,000 structures and left 18 deaths in Altadena and its surrounding communities.

Last month, Pedro Pizarro, the CEO of the parent company of SCE, Edison, confirmed the investors that the devices of the Rosemead -based supply company could have ignited the Eaton Fire. The company would probably suffer significant financial losses if it is found that no other potential cause of the fire has been identified, he said.

More than 130 lawsuits were submitted that have submitted the equipment of SCE for the fire by a SCE idle transmission line, which may have been reinforced after more than 50 years.

Since the early episodes of the Eaton Fire, the equipment of SCE – in particular its transmission values ​​and lines in the foothills over the Altadena – has been a suspected ignition point for the fire that exploded at the beginning of January.

The complaints claim that the lines or electricity is brought into contact with the brush from a exposed ground wire. They also criticize SCE that they were not warned of all power lines in Eaton Canyon after the supply company that the days were warned before the coming winds.

SCE has explained that it conducts a “comprehensive review” of the data collected by the system in coordination with experts from third -party providers and “progresses as soon as possible when analyzing the results”.

The towers and lines, which are suitable in observation, were moved to a storage area in which they are preserved as evidence.

Potential liability has taken into account concerns about the profitability of the 21 -billion dollar -state forest fire insurance fund, which was set up for the coverage of damage caused by fires that were started by the devices of a supplier.

In April Pizarro said that it was unclear how much money would be used to remove the Eaton Fire claims from the fund, since several investigations are continued in the cause.

If the fire is linked to the Edison infrastructure, it could take up a considerable part, he added.

On Friday, the supply company presented its plan in the context of the innovation.

“The strategy for reducing Sces Waldfeuer develops further when we compensate for costs, reliability and security and at the same time protect innovative technologies to protect the community from forest fire risks,” said Powell in a statement.