Preparing for 2020 Fire Season

BayCAN conducted a timely webinar “The 2020 Fire Season: The PSPS, Microgrids, COVID-19 and More” on June 22nd featuring experts from the Climate Center, the Center for Sustainable Energy, and PG&E. BayCAN’s Bruce Riordan framed the webinar discussion with a PPT on how climate change is creating the conditions for many more large and destructive fires in California.

See the webinar recording here and check out these additional materials:

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• Two recent articles on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the 2020 fire season:

  • How the coronavirus pandemic is crippling California's efforts to prevent catastrophic wildfires

  • Could coronavirus collide with wildfire season? California is preparing for it
     

• A recent letter to Governor Newsom from 18 California organizations urging much stronger action on community resilience and microgrids to deal with worsening wildfire conditions and the economic recovery from the COVID emergency.
   

• A brand new study on wildfires in a changing California climate that will see reduced rainfall in fall and therefore a longer and more dangerous fire season.
   

• Sample PG&E substation “spec sheet” and the list of 62 substations that PG&E is preparing for any PSPS events.