Bear in mind that when we built that plant out there in 1929 there was nothing out there. |
Everyone in the room was in favor of the plant's closing. |
It takes a little while to come. |
It's going to take some time because we at this point don't know the extent of the damage caused by the city water line that ruptured. |
The average residential electric rate will increase by $1.46 to $67.64 per month. However, this will affect the largest users. For most customers, they will not see any rate increases. |
The bulk of those are in the South Bay. |
The explosion did displace manhole covers — two round steel ones — and it also displaced a concrete cover as well. |
The plant's closing is condition-specific, not time-specific. |
There were hundreds of individual outages. |
Virtually every portion of the community along the coast was impacted by a power outage because of the storm during the weekend. |
We brought crews from other parts of our service area to the Peninsula and San Francisco, and they remain on standby. |
We just want to keep the flames away, otherwise there's really no trouble. We need to keep people at a safe distance because we need room to work so we can safely shut off the gas. |
We made progress today before being hit with the third storm, which knocked power out to more customers. It's been a huge impact. Earlier it was the Bay Area and northern counties that lost power, today it was the central coast in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, and in San Luis Obispo, more than 20,000 are without power. |
We were expecting quite a bit more from the storm. It turned out to be much milder. |
We've been committed to closing this plant for a long time. |