Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings - PG&E
Find out if your home or business is served by an Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS)-capable line. If you smell natural gas or suspect an emergency, leave the area now and call 9-1-1. If you see downed powerlines, stay away. Don’t exit your car or home. Call 9-1-1. Then call PG&E at 1-877-660-6789. EPSS are advanced safety settings.
Prevent catastrophic ignitions: Mitigate ignitions from PG&E equipment during periods of heightened wildfire risk while minimizing potential public safety impact. Execute an Enhanced Power Safety Settings (EPSS) program safely for our customers, coworkers and communities.
To help prevent wildfires, we have evolved our safety efforts. This includes installing safety settings on powerlines in and around high fire-risk areas. These are known as Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS), and they help prevent falling tree branches, animals and other hazards from starting a wildfire. or a fault occurs...
What do Enhanced Power Line Safety Settings do? - Pacific Gas …
Enhanced Power Line Safety Setting (EPSS) causes power to go out faster when an issue is identified. These devices will operate to prevent potential arcs and sparks that could result in fire ignitions.
EPSS/Wildfire Mitigation - help.pge.com
2024年7月9日 · To mitigate the risk of ignition caused by items striking our equipment, PG&E proactively enables the “Enhanced Power Line Safety Setting” (or EPSS) for identified high focus circuits and segments in high fire-threat districts.
What is an Enhanced Power Line Safety Setting? - help.pge.com
An Enhanced Power Line Safety Setting (EPSS) is a fault-sensing device such as a circuit breaker and/or line recloser that causes the power to turn off.
PG&E Corporation - Installation of Powerline Safety Settings ...
OAKLAND, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced that installation of Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS) on its distribution powerlines in high fire-risk areas (HFRA) is essentially complete.
To help prevent wildfires and protect our customers, PG&E is continuing to enhance our safety efforts. We are adjusting the sensitivity on some equipment to automatically - and quickly - turn off power if the system detects a problem. We call this Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS).
PG&E Corporation - As California’s Traditional Fire Season Starts, PG&E …
2022年6月16日 · OAKLAND, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) said today that its Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS) now protect approximately 3 million people, or more than 1 million customers, who live in high fire-risk areas within the company’s service area.
What are the benefits of the Enhanced Power Line Safety Settings?
The benefits of the Enhanced Power Line Safety Setting s (EPSS) are: Increase public safety; Reduction of ignitions; Eliminating back feed conditions; Terms also used to refer to Enhanced Power Line Safety Settings are Fast Trip, Fast Trip Settings, and Hot Line Tags. For more information Visit EPSS