Illustrative image: A sandhill crane ( Antigone canadensis ) in a flooded field in Butte County, California, on January 24, 2023. On their wintering grounds in the Central Valley, sandhill cranes forage primarily on waste grain in corn, rice, and wheat fields. — Frank Schulenburg/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
An active, unplanned outage attributed to public safety affected 114 customers in Placer County, California. The source data received by Planet Briefing did not include additional details about the affected customers or service area.
Illustrative image: A walnut orchard along West Sacramento Avenue southwest of Chico in Butte County on January 8, 2023. The area close to the Sacramento River was flooded after several atmospheric rivers hit California in early 2023. — Frank Schulenburg/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The record describes an active, unplanned electricity outage in Placer County, California, affecting 50 customers; it lists public safety as the cause.
An active, unplanned power outage is reported in Placer County, California, affecting 526 customers. The source names PGE and lists “public safety” as the cause.
An active, unplanned power outage in Napa County, California, is listed as affecting 41 customers. The record identifies PGE as the utility and gives coordinates for the outage.
Illustrative image: Small tree trunk used as a utility pole along Gold Creek Road (Elko County Route 749) about 7.9 miles north of Nevada State Route 225 (Mountain City Highway) in Elko County, Nevada — Famartin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
An active, unplanned power outage in Nevada County, California, is reported to affect 169 customers. The source lists PGE as the utility and “PUBLIC SAFETY” as the cause.
An active, unplanned outage in Sierra County, California, affects 313 customers. The listed cause is public safety; additional details were not included in the source data received by Planet Briefing.
A utility record reports an active, unplanned electricity interruption affecting 21 customers in Napa County, California. It attributes the cause to public safety.
Illustrative image: Tracy Power Plant, a natural gas powered electricity plant, east of Sparks, Nevada. Run by Sierra Pacific. The Frank A. Tracy Generating Station is a 12 unit 1,021-megawatt (1,369,000 hp) gas-fired power station located in Storey County, Nevada and owned by NV Energy. Some peaking capacity is provided by diesel powered units. It lies just east of the Patrick area, about 17 miles east of Reno, just off Interstate 80, between Exit 28 and Exit 32. It is situated on the south bank of the Truckee Riv — Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Illustrative image: Interstate 5 (I-5) is a major north–south route of the Interstate Highway System in the U.S. state of California. It begins at the Mexico–United States border at the San Ysidro crossing, goes north across the length of California and crosses into Oregon south of the Medford-Ashland metropolitan area. It is the more important and most used of the two major north-south routes on the Pacific Coast, the other being U.S. Route 101, which is primarily coastal and always west of the Interstate. Route 1 — Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
A power outage in Napa County, California, is marked active and unplanned. The record lists PGE, 854 affected customers, and the cause as “PUBLIC SAFETY.”
An active, unplanned outage in Napa County, California, is listed as affecting 5 customers, with PGE identified as the utility. The source lists “PUBLIC SAFETY” as the cause.
Illustrative image: Native Sons of the Golden West fountain at the Napa County Administration Building, Napa, California. — Missvain/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
The source reports an active, unplanned PGE outage in San Luis Obispo County, California, affecting 295 customers. It lists public safety patrolling as the cause and provides no estimated restoration time.
An active, unplanned power outage is reported in Napa County, California, affecting 4 customers. The source lists PGE as the utility and public safety as the cause.
An active, unplanned power outage is reported in Napa County, California, affecting three customers. PGE is listed as the utility, and the cause is recorded as public safety.
