Hermosa Beach City Council grills Edison reps over recent blackouts
Caifornia Edison responding to a past South Redondo power outage. Photo Ill-timed power outages in Hermosa Beach earlier this month prompted renewed concern over a local utility’s reliability and reimbursement for outage-related expenses. The blackouts, one of which lasted for nearly 24 hours, inconvenienced residents and cost local businesses thousands of dollars, according to comments at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. Officials from Southern California Edison appeared at the meeting and faced tough questioning from all four council members. Mayor Carolyn Petty and Mayor pro tem Hany Fangary are also scheduled to meet with Edison officials next week. “Twenty-five percent of these outages are of unknown origin,” Fangary said, referring to data covering electricity reliability for the city in 2015. “I’m an engineer by training, and that suggests to me you need to look elsewhere to address this problem.” Edison responded that it was in the process of a multi-year upgrade to power-delivery in the region, and that outages were an inevitable result. The utility has spent $227 million in infrastructure improvements in the South Bay over the last three years, according to Paul…
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