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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Thousands of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) customers are experiencing outages during another round of public safety power shutoffs that went into effect Monday at 6 a ...

San Diego Gas & Electric resumed public safety power shutoffs in stretches of San Diego’s backcountry overnight into Tuesday as a Red Flag Warning for critical fire danger took hold. STORY ...

These planned shutdowns are called public safety power shutoffs, abbreviated to PSPS, and they're increasingly common. So far this year, we've seen them in Texas, New Mexico and California.

As the world warms, public safety power shutoffs will occur more frequently. The shutoffs clearly highlight the trade-off between economic and social disruption versus preventing dangerous wildfires.

Public safety power shutoffs are still possible in the Santa Fe and Las Vegas, N.M., areas and in the Sandia and East Mountains east of Albuquerque amid high winds and fire danger expected Thursday.