Company: PCG-PB
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001004980-25-000010
Chunk: 94

Company: PG&E Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 94
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 of senior leadership.  These brief meetings help the Utility identify gaps and quickly develop plans to support the teams performing the work and give the Utility more visibility, control and predictability in its operations.  Problem solving involves a structured approach to identifying, containing, analyzing, and solving problems in order to capitalize on opportunities.  Standard work reduces costs and increases productivity by establishing a consistent company-wide method for completing a task.  For instance, the Lean operating system helped the Utility identify patterns in the conditions of ignitions and led to the implementation of EPSS, which drove a significant reduction in facility ignitions.  PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s performance is also driven by an increased focus on alignment of shared outcomes among its leadership and within the organization.  Waste elimination, the fifth Lean play, was deployed in 2023 and enables the companies to identify and eliminate inefficiencies in both process and workflow in a sustainable manner and drive the continued adoption of consistent processes and improvements to financial visibility and controls.

In 2023, the Utility implemented PG&E’s Safety Excellence Management System, which is a more systematic approach to assess risk and evaluate or implement controls for safe operation based on industry standards.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have implemented a regional service model to bring the Utility closer to the hometowns it serves.  Through the regional service model, the Utility has restructured its service area into five regions, with leaders assigned for each region to deliver improved public and employee safety, customer service, and operational reliability outcomes.

California has experienced unprecedented weather conditions in recent years and the Utility’s service area remains susceptible to additional wildfire activity.  In response, the Utility has implemented operational changes and investments that reduce wildfire risk, including:

•Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings: EPSS adjusts the sensitivity of circuit protection devices on selected power lines to de-energize them in less than one-tenth of a second in the event of a disturbance to help prevent potential ignitions.  In recent years, the Utility expanded the EPSS program to all high fire risk areas and reviewed and adjusted settings to improve coordination among devices on a circuit to reduce the number of customers impacted by an outage.  After EPSS was initiated, both the size and number of CPUC-reportable ignitions were reduced substantially on EPSS-enabled circuits, compared to the prior three-year average.

•Public Safety Power Shutoffs:  The PSPS program proactively de-energizes power lines in response to forecasted weather conditions.  Since its inception in late 2017