By Colin Kellaher

 

PG&E Corp. (PCG) said it is monitoring a potentially strong and dry offshore wind event later this week that could prompt the company to shut off power to parts of 17 counties in California's Sierra Foothills and North Bay areas.

The utility said the main period of weather risk is forecast to last about 18 to 24 hours, from Wednesday evening through midday Thursday.

PG&E implemented a policy of preemptive power outages after its equipment was implicated in wildfires in 2017 and 2018, including the Camp Fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed the town of Paradise.

 

Write to Colin Kellaher at colin.kellaher@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

October 21, 2019 06:52 ET (10:52 GMT)

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