Power Outages Planned In Malibu

MALIBU, CA — Southern California Edison announced Friday afternoon that it will perform maintenance on the electrical system in several parts of Malibu during the week of September 14-20 that will require brief power outages on parts of Trancas Canyon Road and Broad Beach Road.

The city of Malibu said that the outages will allow SCE crews to “upgrade aging infrastructure, make needed improvements, and complete other repairs to increase system reliability in the future.”

The outages are scheduled from Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. to Thursday at 12:30 a.m. on the 6000 block of Trancas Canyon Road, and Thursday from 12:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. on the 30800 block of Broad Beach Road.

The city said that the outages may last for the whole time, or in stages. It may also not take place at the time listed. “The times noted are SCE's best estimate and circumstances may affect both the start time and the completion time indicated above,” the city said.

The city has listed a number of suggestions for how to prepare for the PSPS, including having battery-powered flashlights, having cash available, filling up the car with gas, keeping refrigerators closed, leaving gates open or turning the settings to manual operation, having portable chargers for cell phones, throwing away bad food, and discarding medication that must be refrigerated for more than a day, unless the label says otherwise. Individuals medically dependent on electricity should consider going elsewhere, though SCE may be able to register people dependent on electricity for their medicine for a Medical Baseline program to add an additional 16.5kWh per day to baseline electricity allocation.

For a full list of how to prepare for a power outage, visit https://www.ready.gov/power-outages.