{"id":2494,"date":"2022-08-24T21:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2022-08-26T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T04:41:30","slug":"erroneous-signal-sent-during-compliance-testing-blamed-for-causing-massive-el-dorado-county-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/08\/24\/erroneous-signal-sent-during-compliance-testing-blamed-for-causing-massive-el-dorado-county-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Erroneous signal&#8221; sent during compliance testing blamed for causing massive El Dorado County power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Cris Alarcon, News@InEDC.com<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Aug 24, 2022 \u2014 &#8220;Erroneous signal&#8221; sent during compliance testing blamed for causing massive El Dorado County power outage.<\/p>\n<p>By 11:45 a.m., PG&amp;E said that number had dropped to 1,156 customers. All customers were restored by 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it was last minute.&#8221; said Mary Fulmer, owner of Hog Wild BBQ in Placerville. Fulmer said the restaurant was in the middle of a catering order when the power went out and had to pivot to keep the food at a safe temperature, whether hot or cold.<\/p>\n<p>Fulmer said the power was back on &#8220;very quickly&#8221; and was grateful to PG&amp;E for the service.<\/p>\n<p>According to PG&amp;E&#8217;s outage map, power wasn&#8217;t expected to be restored until about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday for some areas. Other areas had an even later time of after 4 p.m. for estimated restoration.<\/p>\n<p>City of Placerville In a post on social media, the City of Placerville confirmed that the problem likely originated from a failed substation in El Dorado Hills. CBS13 asked PG&amp;E to confirm this information and were told that the company does not share specific substation locations &#8220;due to security concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A PG&amp;E official said the problem stemmed from an &#8220;erroneous signal&#8221; sent to a piece of equipment while crews were doing some compliance testing. The signal caused several transmission lines and substations to be deenergized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday at 11:45 a.m., PG&#038;E had dropped to 1,156 customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}