City officials and residents are increasingly frustrated with continued power outages in Beverly Hills. On Sept. 9 at 11:26 p.m., the Trousdale Estates area experienced an outage, leaving 213 residents in the area without power for nearly 29 hours during a heatwave. To restore power, above-ground wiring was installed near Corey Avenue as a part of temporary repairs and on Sept. 11 at 4:10 a.m., electricity was restored. On Sept. 14, power was lost again at 3:05 p.m., in the process of reconnecting residents to the grid and was restored approximately three hours later. The second outage impacted at least 421 residents.
The Beverly Hills City Council raised the outages as a topic of discussion at its Sept. 12 regular meeting, expressing significant discontent with Southern California Edison (SCE).SCE provides power to more than 50,000 square miles across Southern California, including Beverly Hills.”I think that the city needs to file a claim,” said Councilmember Lester Friedman. “I think we, as a city, have to be more proactive in showing SCE that we mean business.”
