05/08/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/08/2026 14:26
PG&E Unveils First-of-its-kind Monitoring Hub That Helped Prevent 17 Wildfires and Over a Thousand Outages
May is Wildfire Awareness Month and today Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) unveils its new Continuous Monitoring Center (CMC), a first-of-its-kind centralized hub that continuously "takes the pulse" of PG&E's electric system to detect risk early, prevent wildfires and strengthen reliability for customers. The Continuous Monitoring Center in San Ramon brings together people, data and advanced machine learning from tens of thousands of sensors installed across PG&E's electric grid, combined with data from its smart meter network consisting of approximately 5.5 million meters that are scanning grid conditions. By analyzing this data continuously, trained experts can identify emerging issues-often before customers are impacted-and dispatch crews to take action before those issues escalate into wildfires or outages. Much like a smart watch alerts you to changes in your health, the Continuous Monitoring Center analyzes signals across PG&E's electric system and flags