Electrical corporations: high firethreat areas: electrical grid monitoring equipment.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to construct, maintain, and operate its electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by those electrical lines and equipment. Existing law authorizes the commission to prescribe the installation, use, maintenance, and operation of appropriate safety or other devices or appliances.