1. Summary

The emergency motions of Memorial Health Services and Catholic Healthcare West are granted in part. Southern California Edison Company and Pacific Gas & Electric Company shall immediately classify all hospitals with 100 beds or more as essential customers exempt from rotating outages regardless of the status of backup or standby generation. These hospitals shall be exempt from rotating outages within 5 days of today. If unable to exempt such hospitals from rotating outages within 5 days from today, each such utility shall, within 4 days of today, file and serve a motion requesting an extension, with a detailed statement of its plan for implementing this ruling.