09/04/2026
A few important things from our SCE meeting, I wanted to make sure everyone knows:
• Calabasas is served by 12 electrical circuits, and those circuits span more than 300 miles. A significant portion of that infrastructure extends outside our city limits, which helps explain why issues on a circuit can affect Calabasas even when the problem itself is not physically located within the city.
• Please complete the SCE survey you receive after an outage. They really do read them. I met the person responsible for reviewing the responses, and your feedback helps SCE identify both communication and service issues.
• Please report short outages and flickering lights, especially if the flickering is happening throughout your home. Very brief interruptions may not register as a traditional outage, but SCE can investigate them if they are reported.
• When Charter or cell service goes down during a power outage, those providers are supposed to have their own backup systems. This is something we need to look into further, because clearly those systems are not always working when our community needs them most.
Nothing is going to change overnight, but for the first time, I truly felt like our concerns were heard and there were people in the room focused on finding solutions.
SCE also walked us through the facility and showed us the equipment involved in the August 31 outage, which helped us better understand what happened and what they are doing to prevent similar problems.
Your personal feedback absolutely helped shape this conversation. Please continue reporting being engaged on this topic.
I will continue pushing for better reliability, better communication, and improved service for our community.