Malibu Gets Twice As Many Blackouts As Rest Of SCE System – Not Including Woolsey Blackouts
Written by 991KBU on July 3, 2019
While Malibu has a choice on who generates their power … Southern California Edison has the monopoly on delivering it.
And KBUU News has obtained the most-recent reliability report that show just how bad Edison’s electric delivery service is in Malibu.
And the figures we are looking at are from before the massive power blackout from the Woolsey Fire… a fire that was caused by Edison power lines.
New statistics show that the average home in Malibu lost 47.8 minutes of electric service in the first three quarters of last year … and that’s before the fire.
That’s 47.8 minutes of blackouts against the Southern California Edison average of 21.6 minutes.
That was three time as bad.
And that was before the fire.
The Woolsey fire caused power outages that lasted so long that the Edison computer went tilt.
Reliability statistics statistic overloaded the computer … it printed out a row of gibberish for Western Malibu … instead of the figures.
Last month … KBUU radio asked Edison to reset the computer and give us the required data.
It’s not pretty … no wonder the computer choked.
After the fire … western Malibu’s circuits were blacked out as much as 28 thousand 5 hundred 85 minutes.
That 477 hours.
19.8 days total of blackouts.
That was after the fire… and don’t forget … the fire was Edison’s fault.
The systemwide average in for SCE was 136 minutes of power outages per year.
The average in Malibu … last year. … a whopping 12,717 minutes.
