Repair Outage

An outage caused by unexpected circumstances, such as traffic accidents or severe weather. We work to repair these outages quickly.

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Maintenance Outage

A scheduled outage that occurs when we turn the power off for equipment upgrades. We notify you in advance if you will be affected by a maintenance outage.

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Major Outage A large, unexpected outage caused by accidents or natural disasters such as wildfires. We strive to keep affected customers and the media well informed during these events while we work to promptly restore power. Find out more about current outage events >

Rotating Outage

An extremely rare, controlled power outage that we enact as a last resort when there is a statewide Stage 3 Emergency declared. Sometimes called a “rolling blackout.”

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Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) Event

During PSPS events, we proactively turn off power to help reduce the risk of wildfires. These events will primarily be called during extreme and potentially dangerous weather conditions. Turning off our customers’ power is not something we take lightly and we consider a number of factors before we make this decision.



We intend to notify affected customers approximately 48 hours in advance of a potential PSPS event and will attempt to notify customers again approximately 24 hours before power is shut off. Additional notifications will be made throughout the outage, when power has been shut off and when it has been restored. Notifications may occur via a combination of phone call, text, sce.com, email and social media. There may be situations which prevent us from providing advance notice due to weather conditions and other circumstances beyond our control.

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