Will your power be shut off? Here’s a tool to help you find out
California’s extreme heat is pushing the power grid to maximum capacity and the Plumas County Sheriff received word yesterday that Plumas is on the list of 10 counties that could have their power shut off at some point today, Sept. 5.
Cal ISO (a nonprofit public benefit corporation that manages the flow of electricity across the high-voltage, long-distance power lines that make up 80 percent of California’s power grid) will make the decision and ask utility companies to cut the power.
Will you be impacted? If you are a PG&E customer you can use the link below to see if your address would be impacted.
To test it out, Plumas News entered the newspapers address on Lawrence Street in Quincy and was told there was no information available. (No power outages are listed at the time.) However, when an address on Old Meadow Valley Road was entered: the following message appeared.
