SCE WLB Outage Hits Up To 1,408 Customers <p><small>About half restored in about four hours, but others, longer</small>

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SCE WLB Outage Over After Affecting Up To 1,408 Customers (SCE Metered Accounts)

About half restored in about four hours, but others, longer

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(Sept. 9, 2015) -- An SCE power outage hit a sizable portion of WLB (mainly 7th Council district) at 5:52 p.m. on Tues. Sept. 8. At its height, the outage impacted 1,408 customers (SCE metered accounts, meaning the actual number of people affected was almost certainly a few times higher.)

By 8:26 p.m., the SCE website indicated the number of customers impacted was 1,093...and about 741 customers were without power into the night.

At 6:39 a.m., today (Sept. 9) the number of customers affected was down to 44...and at some point (we don't have the exact time) their power was restored.

The outage may have been especially mortifying for SCE brass...who were in the City Council Chamber to hear LB city management present a report on the city's response to July's two sizable SCE outages.

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The City's Director of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications Reggie Harrison read part of a Sept. 1 letter from the CPUC to SCE, requiring SCE conduct a number of very thorough inspections on SCE's LB equipment and report to CPUC within 30 days.

As the Council item concluded, Mayor Garcia publicly announced the WLB outage...stating (as he has on several previous occasions) that what's taking place is "unacceptable."

A Councilmember asked if management had a cost figure yet on City of LB response costs to the July outages; not yet, said management, it's still being tallied.

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