California Utilities Emergency Association

OUR MISSION

CUEA serves as a point-of-contact for critical infrastructure utilities and the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and other Governmental Agencies before, during and after an event to:

Facilitate communications and cooperation between member utilities and public agencies; and with non-member utilities (where resources and priorities allow).

Provide emergency response support wherever practical for electric, petroleum pipeline, telecommunications, gas, water and wastewater utilities.

Support utility emergency planning, mitigation, training, exercises and education.

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This program can be extremely beneficial during a major disaster or attack in which the public telecommunications networks are congested by high call volumes and/or damage to the telecommunications infrastructure.

CUEA staffs and manages the State of California Utility Operations Center

The Utility Operation Center (UOC) is staffed by the California Utilities Emergency Association (CUEA) per established MOU, and is intended to provide support to the state and serves as an active operational component of the State Operations Center (SOC) or Regional Emergency Operations Centers (REOCs) serving in the capacity of the Utilities Branch within the Operations Section. The SOC and REOC activate under the authority of California Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS).

MEMBER BENEFITS

Emergency Response and Restoration Support
Mutual assistance in both statewide and interstate agreements
Planning, Training and Exercising
Members receive legislative alerts on Utility affected issues
CUEA is the only Utility Association with a Memorandum of Understanding with the California Office of Emergency Services

ESTABLISHED in 1952, the FIRST and LARGEST UTILITY EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION in CALIFORNIA

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