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Lake Forest: SCE Urges Residents To Reduce Power Usage

CAISO encourages SCE customers to immediately reduce energy to help avoid CAISO rotating outages.

August 15, 2020

From SCE

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The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) has just declared a statewide STAGE 2 EMERGENCY due to excessive heat driving up electricity use and putting strain on the grid. During this emergency, if system conditions do not improve, the CAISO would declare a Stage 3, which will lead to rotating 1-hour power outages.

CAISO encourages SCE customers to immediately reduce energy to help avoid CAISO rotating outages. SCE will continue to provide updates until conditions improve.

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To learn more about CAISO’s system alerts, warnings and emergencies, please visit www.CAISO.com or download the ISO Today application.

Additional information and FAQs are available at www.sce.com/rotatingoutage.

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