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Ward noted that there’s already food and other supplies stored at the coal-fired generating station in case of emergency. “I don’t see a scenario where we would not be able to maintain supply of energy,” said Mark Miller, U.S. chief operating officer for AES. “And we’ve talked at length about this. And no one sees a scenario where we’d be at risk of non-supply.”At Southern California Edison, about two-thirds of the company’s 12,000 employees are now telecommuting, spokesman David Song said.
“We know wildfire season is around the corner. So, we will continue to accelerate our work to upgrade our system in the face of continued and perhaps worsening wildfire threats,” PG&E spokesman James Noonan said in an email.
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