We absolutely have the best trained crews in the country if not the world.
Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.
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.
Some of those customers that don't practice energy conservation may see their bill increase by 20 or 30 percent.
We've brought crews in from less affected areas to augment local crews.
San Jose is probably the only part of the Bay Area not heavily impacted.
It's simple supply and demand equations. The greater the supply, the more effect it will have on prices.
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 has been significant the amount of damages this series of storms has caused.