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California: official power outage sources

California has six investor-owned utilities, led by PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, which the California Public Utilities Commission oversees. Public utilities such as LADWP, SMUD and the Imperial Irrigation District, plus city systems, irrigation districts, rural cooperatives and tribal utilities, serve many other areas. If you buy power through a community choice program, the local utility still delivers it and handles outages.

Outages in California right now

Not shown on this site. Power Grid Watch does not have live outage information for California. That does not mean there are no outages. Use the official links below to check and to report.

If your power is out

Stay away from downed lines and anything touching them. Call 911.
Report it to your own utility. The name and outage phone number are on your electric bill. Do not assume a neighbor has reported it.
Check your utility's outage page for the area affected and any restoration estimate. Only your utility can give that estimate.

Utility outage pages

Each link covers only that utility's own customers. If your provider is not listed here, use the directories in the next section.

PG&E Outage page pgealerts.alerts.pge.com
Southern California Edison Outage page A newly reported outage can take up to 30 minutes to appear. sce.com
San Diego Gas & Electric Outage page Planned outages can appear up to 72 hours before they start. outage.sdge.com
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Outage page ladwp.com
SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District) Outage page Restoration estimates are approximate and may change. myaccount.smud.org

Official state sources

Use these to find out which utility serves an address, to reach the regulator, and to follow state emergency information.

California Energy Commission: electricity providers Provider directory Official list of utilities and other electricity providers in California. energy.ca.gov
Cal OES: statewide power outages State outage page Covers PG&E, SCE, SDG&E and SMUD only. It shows current conditions, not past outages. publish.data.ca.gov
Cal OES: public safety power shutoffs Emergency management caloes.ca.gov
CPUC: utility shutoff (PSPS) reports Regulator Reports filed by utilities after safety shutoff events. cpuc.ca.gov
National Weather Service Weather alerts Enter your town or ZIP code for current watches and warnings. A weather warning is not an outage prediction. weather.gov

Good to know in California

California's statewide outage layer covers four large utilities, not every provider. LADWP, city, co-op, district and tribal utility customers should check with their own provider.
Some items on outage maps are planned work that has not started yet, with no customers out.
A safety shutoff watch or heat alert does not mean your power is out; check your utility for actual outages.
The California ISO runs the bulk grid for much of the state, but not all of it, and it does not track outages on your street.

The wider grid

Regional grid organizations and balancing areas that cover all or part of California: California ISO. They balance supply and demand on the high-voltage system. Their alerts describe the regional system, not an outage on your street. How the pieces fit together

Links on this page were last reviewed on November 10, 2026. Official pages move; if a link is broken or a provider is missing, tell us.