PG&E Meteorologist Evan Duffey, “Strong winds will arrive in the northern part of PG&E’s service area Friday with the central and southern regions seeing adverse weather follow on Friday night and Saturday."

PG&E has positioned crews and resources across its service area to support the safe and swift response repair to damage and restore power outages that may result from the forecasted heavy rain and strong winds that will impact much of Northern California beginning today and through the weekend. The National Weather Service has issued advisories, watches, and warnings throughout portions of the territory; these can be viewed on the PG&E Weather Map.

According to PG&E Meteorologist Evan Duffey, “Strong winds will arrive in the northern part of PG&E’s service area Friday with the central and southern regions seeing adverse weather follow on Friday night and Saturday. This will be a fast-moving storm that will also deliver significant precipitation and widespread damaging winds. We’ve worked closely with our Operations teams to provide insights and data around where the strongest impact from the storm will take place.”

PG&E uses storm outage prediction models coupled with AI and machine learning to determine potential storm-related damage along with the potential timing, location, and number of power outages to pre-position storm response resources including, electric crews, troublemen, distribution line technicians, and system inspectors who serve as the utility's first responders, along with personnel who will monitor electric incidents for public safety.

“Our crews are in position and prepared to safely and quickly respond in support of our customers and hometowns following this storm,” said Peter Kenny, PG&E Senior Vice President, Electric Operations.

PG&E has also prestaged power poles, powerlines, transformers, and other electric equipment at yards throughout its service area to make equipment repairs and restore power to affected areas safely and as quickly as possible.

If an outage does occur, PG&E customers can find real-time updates via the online outage center, including status updates the assessments, repair and estimated time of restoration.

Renters and others without a PG&E account may also use this portal to sign up for outage notifications by text, email, or phone.

Daily updates around storm response and restoration will be available on PG&E Currents.