PG&E Electric Crews Responding to Support Florida Power & Light Customers Impacted by Hurricane Matthew
October 06 2016 - 5:26PM
Business Wire
Crews from Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will help
restore power to Florida residents impacted by Hurricane
Matthew.
About 130 PG&E employees, including line workers, equipment
operators, supervisors and support personnel, will travel to
Florida from Sacramento on Friday (Oct. 7). Many will be members of
the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local
Chapter 1245, which supports this deployment.
Matthew, a Category 4 hurricane that wreaked havoc in the
Caribbean this week, is expected to hit Florida today. The National
Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane warning for much of the
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina coasts.
In 2014, PG&E and Florida Power & Light (FP&L)
signed an historic, cross-continent mutual-aid agreement, pledging
support in the event of a major natural disaster. Besides the
commitment of personnel, the agreement between PG&E and
FP&L includes logistics, common work procedures and safety
protocols. This marks the first time this agreement has been
activated. Per the agreement, FP&L as the host utility will
cover the costs of this support.
“Safely restoring power to customers affected by a catastrophic
event such as a hurricane or earthquake begins the process of
returning life back to normal. It’s our job and commitment to do
this for our customers in California, and we’re happy to be able to
extend our efforts to those in Florida impacted by this huge
storm,” said Pat Hogan, PG&E’s senior vice president of
Electric Transmission and Distribution.
Crews based in Fresno, Merced, Santa Rosa, Auburn, Marysville,
Redding, Chico, Antioch, Salinas and other locations will be
involved in the restoration efforts, which are expected to take
more than a week.
In 2012, PG&E dispatched crews to New York and New Jersey to
help restore power after Hurricane Sandy devastated the region.
More than 200 PG&E employees and some PG&E blue work trucks
were flown to the area, and work began immediately. The workers
spent more than a week in the Northeast, and were later applauded
by the American Red Cross, the Edison Electric Institute and Con
Edison, the New York utility that powers the Big Apple.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San
Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers
some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in
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