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Wildfire Prevention Today and Tomorrow: PG&E Shares 2025 Wildfire Season Readiness Update, Showcases Local XPRIZE Wildfire Competitors
- PG&E shared its readiness ahead of the 2025 peak wildfire season, highlighting wildfire prevention efforts across California service areas.
- Since 2021, the company has enhanced wildfire preparedness by moving nearly 915 miles of powerlines underground and upgrading 1,430 miles of overhead lines to mitigate wildfire risks.
- These efforts, combined with AI-based wildfire condition monitoring and vegetation management, contributed to over a 65% reduction in wildfire ignitions in 2024.
- PG&E joined the four-year, $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition, supporting local teams using AI and autonomous technology to detect and suppress wildfires.
- These ongoing wildfire mitigation actions aim to improve system resilience amid extreme weather and longer wildfire seasons, reducing ignition risk by nearly 67%.
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Wildfire Prevention Today and Tomorrow: PG&E Shares 2025 Wildfire Season Readiness Update, Showcases Local XPRIZE Wildfire Competitors - PressReach
PG&E’s Layers of Protection Are Working, Prevented a Major Wildfire in 2023 and 2024 SAN RAMON, Calif., June 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to monitor wildfire conditions and deploying proven layers of wildfire protection to prevent wildfires, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) shared its readiness ahead of peak wildfire season. These layers of protection helped prevent a major wildfire in 202…
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