Technological refinements designed to help PG&E more narrowly focus power shutoffs PG& E called for no Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) in 2023, a year largely free of big wildfires in California. But even if 2024 sees a return to something more resembling 2020, when more than 9,900 fires burned almost 4.4 million acres of Califor-nia – more than 4% of the state’s total acreage –