We've brought crews in from less affected areas to augment local crews.
It has been significant the amount of damages this series of storms has caused.
Some of those customers that don't practice energy conservation may see their bill increase by 20 or 30 percent.
If we can't get to a location, we can't assess it, and we can?t fix it.
If that trend continues, it will help moderate customer prices in the future.
San Jose is probably the only part of the Bay Area not heavily impacted.
Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.
We absolutely have the best trained crews in the country if not the world.
Any time you have increased market competition, that's generally a good thing. It will help moderate prices or price increases to California customers, to Oregon customers, and from Washington to Nevada.
It's simple supply and demand equations. The greater the supply, the more effect it will have on prices.
