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Public Safety Power Shutoff

This is a photo of the Bear Valley Electric Service’s Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) Pre-planned Outage Map. The Map is showing the identified High Fire Threat areas that may be selectively de-energized as a measure of last resort to minimize the impact to only the areas at risk. The following number of customers in the respected areas will be affected by a PSPS planned outage, should one have to occur. The locations are: North Shore: AR-805, Customers: 968; Boulder Bay: AR-105, Customers: 1118; Lagonita: AR-145, Customers: 908; Club View: AR-424, Customers: 718; Goldmine: AR-405, Customers: 935; Erwin: AR-1128, Customers: 18.

2020 Wildfire Mitigation and PSPS Preparation

Proactive De-Energization Policy

BVES Public Safety Power Shutoff Plan 7-22-2020

BVES Phase 2 De-Energization Progress Report 7-28-2020