PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY’S WILDFIRE …

1 PACIFIC Gas and ELECTRIC Company Amended 2019 WILDFIRE Safety Plan February 6, 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction and Objectives of 1 Executive Summary .. 1 Plan Overview and Objectives .. 6 2. Program Overview and Climate Change Risk and 12 Overview of Strategies and 12 Climate Change 17 3. Risk Analysis and Drivers .. 19 Methodology for Identifying and Evaluating 20 List of WILDFIRE Risks and 22 Risks and Drivers Identified in Risks and Drivers Identified After RAMP.

2 22 Risks and Drivers Associated With Design, Construction, Operations and 29 Topographic and Climatological 29 How PG&E s Plan Accounts for WILDFIRE 31 Evaluation of Higher Risk Threat Areas .. 32 Circuit Prioritization Based on Asset WILDFIRE Risk .. 32 WILDFIRE Evacuation Study .. 34 Use of Probabilistic Risk Assessments .. 35 4. WILDFIRE Reduction Strategy and Programs .. 35 Operational Recloser 47 Personnel Work Procedures in Conditions of Elevated Fire Risk .. 49 Safety and Infrastructure Protection Teams .. 50 Aviation 51 WILDFIRE Safety Inspection Programs.

3 52 WSIP Distribution .. 55 WSIP Transmission ..56 WSIP Substation .. 59 System Hardening 60 Pole Material .. 64 Pole Loading and Replacement .. 65 i System Protection .. 67 Equipment .. 69 Enhanced Vegetation Management ..70 Vegetation Trimming and Overhanging Tree Limbs .. 73 High Fire-Threat District VM Inspection 76 Inspecting Trees With a Potential Strike Path to Power At-Risk Species Management.

4 79 Challenges Associated With Enhanced Vegetation Management ..80 Community and Environmental Impacts .. 85 Enhanced Situational Awareness and Known Local Conditions .. 86 Meteorological Operations and Advanced Situational Awareness .. 88 Fire Spread Modeling .. 90 Weather Camera Deployment Strategy .. 91 Satellite Fire Detection 92 Storm Outage Prediction 92 WILDFIRE Safety Operations Center .. 93 Public Safety Power Shutoff Program .. 94 PSPS Decision Factors .. 97 Strategies to Enhance PSPS Efficiency While Reducing Associated Impacts 98 Impact Mitigation Through System Sectionalizing.

5 98 Resilience Customer Services and 100 PSPS Notification Strategies .. 105 Customer and Community Outreach .. 106 Mitigating PSPS Impacts on First Responders, Health Care Facilities, Telecommunications, and Water 108 Re-Energization Strategy .. 109 Alternative Rapid Earth Fault Current Limiter Pilot Project .. 111 Enhanced Wires Down Detection Other Alternative Technologies .. 111 Post-Incident Recovery, Restoration and Remediation Post-Incident Recovery .. 113 ii Restoration.

6 114 Remediation .. 114 Environmental Remediation Debris Flow Modeling .. 115 5. Emergency Preparedness and 117 PG&E Company Emergency Response Plan .. 117 The Plan s Alignment With 118 Plans to Prepare for and Restore Service .. 118 Emergency 120 Public Outreach Before Potential Public Outreach During 122 Public Outreach After 122 Ensuring Adequate Workforce to Restore Service .. 123 Customer Support in Emergencies .. 125 Outage Reporting .. 125 Support for Low Income Customers .. 125 Billing Adjustments .. 127 Extended Payment Plans.

7 128 Suspension of Disconnection and Nonpayment Fees and Deposit Waivers 128 Repair Processing and Timing .. 128 Access to Utility Representatives .. 129 6. Performance Indicators and Monitoring .. 130 Plan Executive Level Responsibility .. 130 Program Owners .. 130 Plan Performance and Operational Inspection Targets ..133 System Hardening Targets and Indicators .. 134 Vegetation Management Targets and Indicators ..134 Situational Awareness Monitoring and Auditing .. 137 Corrections to Plan 137 Monitoring and Auditing Effectiveness of Equipment and Line Internal ELECTRIC Asset Management Quality Assurance and Quality Control Process.

8 138 iii Internal 139 External Auditing .. 140 7. Cost Estimates for 2019 Plan Programs .. 141 8. Additional Information the CPUC May Require .. 145 Figures Figure 1: High Density Forest Area in Northern california .. 19 Figure 2: WILDFIRE Bow-Tie Risk .. 21 Figure 3: CPUC Map Evolution .. 24 Figure 4: PG&E Service Area Fire Threat Map .. 25 Figure 5: 2015-2017 Drivers for Fire Incidents in HFTD Tiers 2 and 3, and Zone Figure 6: Ignitions for Transmission and Distribution by Driver.

9 28 Figure 7: Enhanced Vegetation Management .. 74 Figure 8: PG&E Vegetation Management .. 82 Tables Table 1: 2019 Program 3 Table 2: Plan Compliance with california Public Utilities Code (PUC) 8386(c) .. 11 Table 3: Strategy and Program Timeframes .. 15 Table 4: CPUC HFTD Map Tier Table 5: Approximate Distribution 25 Table 6: Approximate Transmission Assets .. 25 Table 7: RAMP Risk Drivers Related to SB 901 and ALJ Ruling Risk Categories .. 29 Table 8: Correlation of Programs to Ignition 36 Table 9: 2019 WILDFIRE Safety Plan Targets.

10 39 Table 10: Identification of ALJ Ruling Table 11: Operational Practices Table 12: WILDFIRE Safety Inspection Programs Key .. 52 Table 13: System Hardening Overview Table 14: Enhanced Vegetation Management Key .. 70 Table 15: Annual Additional Trees 75 Table 16: Enhanced Situational Awareness and Known Local Conditions Key .. 86 Table 17: Public Safety Power Shutoff Program Key .. 94 iv Table 18: Alternative Technologies Table 19: Post-Incident Recovery, Restoration and Remediation Activities Table 20: Responsible Executive.