Based on current energy supply forecasts, PG&E has announced that rolling power outages are likely to occur in parts of Arcata today, Tuesday, August 18. This outage is currently estimated to occur approximately between 6 and 9 PM, and may last up to three hours.
In response to the recent calls for instituting rotating power outages, PG&E has developed a tool to help customers see how they might be affected. Rotating outages are organized by circuit blocks dispersed across PG&E’s service area and sequenced to minimize the amount of disruption for each customer.
The online tool at can be found
here, and it allows customers to look up their circuit block and subblock. Customers can then look for their block and subblock on a table of forecasted outages for the day.
With the state heatwave expected to continue at least through Thursday night, PG&E strongly encourages all customers to continue conserving to reduce overall power demand.
Below are detailed instructions for using the online tool:
Use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Edge Chromium browsers
Click on “Look up your rotating outage block number.”
Enter your address
Read your block and subblock.
Find your block and subblock on the table.
If your block or subblock does not appear you are not expected to be subject to a rotating outage.
If your block and subblock do appear, you could be subject to an outage of up to three hours in the event CAISO calls for rolling outages because the state’s power demand is within 3 percent of available supply.
For more information, please click here.