Item 26 - Adoption of the City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan

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City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan Part I Basic Plan generating equipment may also reduce the available supply, and there may be a combination of reduced supply during a time of extreme demand. CA ISO will classify power shortage emergencies into Stages and will deliver various Alerts and Warnings to government agencies and to the public based on the timing and severity of the forecasted shortfall. However, it must be noted, if there is a rapid or unanticipated spike in demand or loss of supply, CA ISO may not have time to deliver these warnings before outages occur, or may advance rapidly through stages or skip stages altogether. CA ISO Alerts and Warnings ISO Notice Condition Flex Alert Less than 7% operating reserve is forecast in the next 24 hours Warning Less than 7% operating reserve is forecast in the next 1 hour Energy Emergency Alert 1 (Stage 1 Emergency) Less than 7% operating reserve is occurring Energy Emergency Alert 2 (Stage 2 Emergency) Less than 5% operating reserve is occurring Energy Emergency Alert 3 (Stage 3 Emergency) Less than 3% operating reserve is occurring Flex Alert — A Flex Alert is issued when the operating reserve is forecast to fall below 7% in the next 24 hours. This means consumers will be using more than 93% of the power that utilities are capable of producing. A Flex Alert is an urgent call to consumers to immediately begin to conserve electricity and to shift demand to off-peak hours (off-peak hours are after 6:00 PM, when most energy -consuming offices, schools, businesses and industries have closed for the day and outside temperatures are beginning to cool). Flex Alert is a public awareness and emergency alert program funded by the utilities and initiated by CA ISO. CA ISO will notify all news media outlets (TV, radio, print and online) and begin airing television and radio ads and social media posts encouraging consumers to begin conserving electricity, while there is still time to avoid outages. Consumers are asked to minimize or postpone to off-peak hours use of air conditioning, fans, lighting and any other electrical appliances and to minimize water use, as water utilities consume electricity to deliver water. Warning - A Warning is issued when operating reserves are forecast to fall below 7% in the next 1 hour. A Warning is not a new stage, it is a notification that the Flex Alert is not yet working and Emergency Stages are imminent. Energy Emergency Alert I— An Energy Emergency Alert 1 (also called Stage 1 Emergency) is declared when operating reserves have fallen below 7% (consumers are currently using more than 93% of available supply). At this time, CA ISO will raise the conservation messaging to consumers to a more assertive level, with more prominent radio and TV ads and may utilize news crawls at the bottom of TV screens or activate Emergency Alert System broadcasts to break into regularly scheduled TV and radio programs. The City may utilize the AlertOC mass notification system to directly notify our residents and businesses. An Energy Emergency Alert 1 is a notification that power outages are imminent. Energy Emergency Alert 2 - An Energy Emergency Alert 2 (also called Stage 2 Emergency) is declared when operating reserves have fallen below 5%. Stage 2 Emergencies continue the assertive public messaging of Flex Alerts and Energy Emergency Alert 1's. Utilities will begin shutting off electricity to large businesses who have volunteered for this in exchange for rebates on their electricity bill. Programs for homeowners who have volunteered to have their air conditioning curtailed in exchange for rebates will also be activated. Electric utilities will begin drawing increased power supply away from other utilities throughout the western United States to bolster supply here, which may require conservation measures to begin in those other regions. Energy Emergency Alert 3 - An Energy Emergency Alert 3 (also called Stage 3 Emergency) is declared when operating reserves have fallen below 3%. Electricity customers pre -identified as large consumers, such as factories or heavy machinery operators, will be shut down involuntarily. Rotating power outages will begin within one hour if power supply does not stabilize rapidly. 65