STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: November 1, 2022
To: Honorable Mayor & City Council
From: Shana Epstein, Director of Public Works
Subject: Per Request of Mayor Bosse, Southern California Edison Has Been Asked to Return to the City Council to Discuss Progress with Capital Projects and Give an Update on the Latest Outage Attachments: None
INTRODUCTION
On August 23, 2022, Southern California Edison (SCE) presented to City Council regarding how they measure service and scheduling for upcoming infrastructure projects. City Council originally requested SCE return in November to give a progress report, but on September 9, 2022, at 11:26 p.m., a power outage that affected 213 customers in Trousdale occurred, which extended beyond 24 hours until September 11, 2022, at approximately 4:00 a.m. Subsequently, per the Mayor’s request SCE returned on October 11, 2022, with a number of managers from operations to customer service.
At that meeting, the Mayor requested that SCE representatives return with an update on the capital improvement projects in the City. Since that meeting, another larger outage occurred on October 24, 2022.
DISCUSSION
On October 24, 2022, at 5:08pm, a wide spread power outage began in the north eastern part of the City and included some of West Hollywood. The total number of customers impacted ranged from 2,000 to 4,000 during the outage, but is now listed as 1,174 customers impacted. Three circuits locked out; for the circuits to be recharged required a full patrol of each area so the power was brought back on in 3 stages at approximately 8 pm and 10 pm that night and the last stage by 12:45 am early in the morning of the next day.
Staff called the SCE Outage Center to report the outage and the call was returned within 30 minutes. At that time, SCE gave the City an outage number to reference and preliminary information. The City’s government relations representative was contacted and she circled back with the Outage Center and Operations so staff continued to receive notifications throughout the evening. The SCE Outage Website was continuously updated as well.
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Meeting Date: November 1, 2022
The cause of the outage is listed as equipment problems and not equipment failures as previous extended outages.
Some customers reported interruptions in natural gas service and Wi-Fi service. The Gas Company was not experiencing an interruption and Spectrum is still investigating.
Spectrum did confirm if the power is out then cable will not work.
The Police Department deployed extra patrols in the area until power was restored.
FISCAL IMPACT
This report is informational and there is no requested action that may have fiscal impacts. RECOMMENDATION
Staff is ready to receive any additional direction City Council would like to pursue regarding SCE’s reliability.
Shana E. Epstein, Director of Public Works
Approved By