Paul Moreno Quotes (11 Quotes)

We just want to keep the flames away, otherwise there's really no trouble. We need to keep people at a safe distance because we need room to work so we can safely shut off the gas.

We made progress today before being hit with the third storm, which knocked power out to more customers. It's been a huge impact. Earlier it was the Bay Area and northern counties that lost power, today it was the central coast in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, and in San Luis Obispo, more than 20,000 are without power.

Bear in mind that when we built that plant out there in 1929 there was nothing out there.

Winter storms such as this are not unheard of but this one was severe.

We've restored power to about 1.328 million people, but 89,000 are still without.

The average residential electric rate will increase by 1.46 to 67.64 per month. However, this will affect the largest users. For most customers, they will not see any rate increases.

There were hundreds of individual outages.

The plant's closing is condition-specific, not time-specific.

Virtually every portion of the community along the coast was impacted by a power outage because of the storm during the weekend.

We've been committed to closing this plant for a long time.

It's going to take some time because we at this point don't know the extent of the damage caused by the city water line that ruptured.