Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services Met With PG&E About PSPS

Humboldt County officials meeting with PG&EPress release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On Oct. 31, 2019, Supervisor Rex Bohn and Sheriff William Honsal sent a letter to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) outlining the community’s concerns and frustration with PG&E’s handling of the Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). In response to that letter, PG&E executives and Humboldt County officials met…, December 9, to discuss the recent PSPS events, the concerns of our community regarding these events and progress towards the county being powered by local power generating facilities.

Among those in attendance were PG&E President and CEO of Utilities Andrew Vesey, Supervisor Rex Bohn, Sheriff William Honsal, OES Manger Ryan Derby, PG&E Senior Manager Carl Schoenhofer, Senior Public Safety Specialist Jeff Lee, Humboldt Bay Generating Station Director Steve Royall and PG&E Public Affairs specialist Alison Talbot.

During the meeting, PG&E committed to explore the feasibility of utilizing the local Humboldt Bay Generating Station to maintain power for portions of Humboldt County during future PSPS events. A project is currently underway to determine the best way to generate and regulate power from the Humboldt Bay Generating Station, with a goal of completion being mid-year 2020. PG&E also committed to keep the county’s power grid energized for as long as possible when adverse fire weather could trigger a PSPS, allowing county residents more time to prepare and plan for an outage.

Both PG&E and Humboldt County are dedicated to improving communication with the utility company to ensure that county residents remain informed and prepared. Both Supervisor Bohn and Sheriff Honsal were pleased with the meeting with CEO Andrew Versey.

“This is a solid step in the right direction to ensure good communication and coordination with PG&E for future PSPS events,” Sheriff Honsal said.

PG&E CEO Versey pledged to have future meetings to update the county on the progress PG&E is making with the local power generating station and the North State power grid. As progress is made, county leadership will keep the community informed.

Sheriff Honsal and Supervisor Bohn would like to thank all of our local PG&E employees for working so hard to keep the power on for this community.

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Rex Trevor
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Rex Trevor
4 years ago

Ah ha! Progressive Gas & Electric. Sounds like a winner.

Willie Caos-mayham
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4 years ago

🕯🌳Good morning Kym and thank you for keeping us informed. 👍🏽☃️🎅

Martin
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Martin
4 years ago

Dealing with PG&E is like going to the Air and Space Museum and finding nothing in there.

Steve Parr
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Steve Parr
4 years ago

Considering all the bull we’ve heard about the impossibility of disconnecting Humboldt from the Grid (as if Humboldt never had power before the Grid), it’ll be interesting to see what kind of fluffery comes from this.

Reject Rex Bhon for Reelection
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Reject Rex Bhon for Reelection
4 years ago

It’s not like this is campaign pandering or anything with the most inept and corrupt joke of a supervisor that wouldn’t know a conflict of interest if it bit him on the ass continually writing letters going nowhere backed to by his corrupt appointed sheriff that likes to do secret non-public auctions. Man it must be nice to be able to use your position a power to enrich and influence your family and friends while it’s pretty evident to everybody else that it’s organized crime where your kid goes around bear spraying infants because they don’t pay their workers. Bad enough we have LOCO that is a mouthpiece for these two good old boys but it also seems that redhead is also becoming one too. I guess there’s no place to get actual news that is not filtered in a way that makes a good old boys of this county seem like they’re actually doing something and all they’ve done is run this county down economically while using their positions of power and influence to enrich themselves.

Willie Caos-mayham
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4 years ago

🕯🌳Damn.🤯🤯🤯🎅

Steve Parr
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Steve Parr
4 years ago

Pretty sure she pointed out it is just a press release.

Brandon
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Brandon
4 years ago

Wow. Some of these comments makes people sound miserable in life. Hate the world much? Cali is full of hate, poor saps have nothing good to say

PG&E said "whatever."
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PG&E said "whatever."
4 years ago

““This is a solid step in the right direction to ensure good communication and coordination with PG&E for future PSPS events,” Sheriff Honsal said.

Bla bla bla. When are we going to be rid of back and forth soft talk bullshit. In plain English, PG&E said “whatever, maybe.” The sheriff puckered his lips and gave them a kiss.