outages depend on the infrastructure age, planned upgrade programs, and operation and maintenance guidelines for each utility. For instance, Southern California Electric utility conducts more than 30,000 maintenance outages across the service territory per year-many of which expose local customers to one or two hours scheduled outage (in best cases). Portable diesel or gas generators are used in certain scheduled outages when a given maintenance program requires more than couple of hours outage or certain critical customers are involved. MESS can be a viable replacement of diesel or gas generators for such scheduled outages. figure 3. South Coast (a region of California from Ventura County to the Mexican border) air-quality management district backup generator siting. Source: https://www.bloomenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/diesel-back-up -generator-population-grows-rapidly.pdf G Host Site 60 Miles Load * Peak Shaving * Renewable Smoothing * Emission Reduction 50 Miles G Community Center 1 65 Miles Community Center 2 Customer Tap Box G Load * PSPS Outage Management figure 4. Dispatching MESS for PSPS outage management. 102 ieee power & energy magazine April 2023 * PSPS Outage Management Load Customer Tap Boxhttps://www.bloomenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/diesel-back-up-generator-population-grows-rapidly.pdf https://www.bloomenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/diesel-back-up-generator-population-grows-rapidly.pdf