North Coast Resiliency Initiative Workshop

Must register to join: https://cpuc.webex.com/weblink/register/rab3da63907d111c895a179130dd2caca

Purpose of the workshop:
The goal of the workshop is to present the key findings and lessons learned from the NCRI to stakeholders and the broader public, alongside a publicly available NCRI Report. The workshop will cover historical modelling of PSPS impacts in the North Coast, potential mitigations, and recommendations for a broader framework for addressing similar grid challenges in future.

Background:
The CPUC founded the North Coast Resiliency Initiative (NCRI) in 2021 to determine the causes of, and to craft mitigations for, electrical outages that impact customers along California’s North Coast during wildfire season. Along with the CPUC, representatives from other state energy agencies, utilities, and Community Choice Aggregators comprised the NCRI’s Steering Committee which was responsible for the majority of the initiative’s work. Specifically, the NCRI intended to identify, evaluate, and develop a plan for implementing mitigations to transmission-level Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) outages affecting otherwise safe-to-energize customers. For the purposes of the NCRI, the “North Coast” was defined as Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and portions of Mendocino, Lake, and Solano counties. The NCRI is overseen by CPUC Commissioner Genevieve Shiroma and other energy principals.

For additional information: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-energy/infrastructure/resiliency-and-microgrids/north-coast-resiliency-initiative