Afternoon Update:
As we prepare for another winter storm system expected to pass through Northern and Central California over the weekend, PG&E crews are taking advantage of today’s clear skies to continue making repairs to restore power to customers.
The most impacted area remains Nevada County, where approximately 9,500 customers are without power after receiving heavy snow earlier this week. Pockets of customers in El Dorado County (4,166 customers), Tuolumne County (3,300), Santa Cruz County (3,213 customers), Madera County (2,827 customers) and Placer County (2,216 customers) are also among the roughly 38,000 customers experiencing outages throughout PG&E’s service areas.
Although winter weather has improved toward the end of this week, crews continue working to resolve access issues caused by snow accumulation, downed trees and blocked roads, especially in the higher elevations which have experienced unusually harsh winter weather and heavy snow accumulation.
We want customers to know that we won’t stop working until every customer is restored. Our crews will keep working day and night, rain/snow or shine — when conditions are safe to do so — until the lights are back on for all customers.
PG&E has restored power to more than 1.4 million customers since the series of winter weather systems entered California on Feb. 21.
We appreciate our customers’ continued patience and understanding as we do this important work. Customers are encouraged to check our Outage Map for the latest restoration time estimates.
March 3, 2023 - Crews continue working day and night to safely restore customers who lost power as a result of recent storm systems that brought rain, wind and substantial snow accumulation throughout parts of our service areas. Additional winter weather systems forecasted to pass through Northern and Central California this weekend will likely deliver additional precipitation in some areas and heavy snow in the higher elevations.
We will not stop working until we have safely restored the approximately 41,000 customers still without power as a result of the storms. We appreciate our customers’ continued patience and understanding as we work closely with local and state agencies to resolve roadway and other access issues that have delayed repairs and restorations. As reported, historic snow levels in some communities in the foothills and the Sierra Nevada have resulted in downed trees and blocked roads.
For PG&E’s Stockton and Yosemite Divisions (San Joaquin, Amador, Calaveras, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, Mariposa, Madera counties) and part of Fresno County, we hope to have power restored to customers on or before Saturday, March 4*.
For customers out of power in our Sierra Division (El Dorado, Placer, Nevada, Sierra, Yuba counties) and the eastern half of Sutter County, we hope to have power restored by or before Wednesday, March 8*.
* As access issues are resolved some customers may have their power restored earlier. Customers are encouraged to check our Outage Map for the latest restoration time estimates.
PG&E has restored power to more than 1.4 million customers since the series of winter weather systems entered California on Feb. 21.
Crews are working day and night in these storm conditions to make repairs and restore outages for customers.
Source: PG&E
