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What service do you have where your grid connection is that unreliable? Is it PG&E? Is it due to their "cautiousness"?

by TheHypnotist 5y ago

mrep 5y ago
Not op, but PG&E shut off the power to over 2 million people for 3ish days due to high wind fire risk back in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_California_power_shutoffs#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_California_power_shutoffs...
- coding123 5y ago
  In 2020 it was probably a grand total of 20 days, and restoration took days.
nostrademons 5y ago
Yes, it's PG&E. It's a combination of their cautiousness and their incompetence. Sometimes the power will just go out for reasons unrelated to PSPOs (public safety power outages).
bob1029 5y ago
> the grid isn't there when you need it. > What service do you have where your grid connection is that unreliable? I am in Ercot, right next to where the natural gas pipelines begin and where regulation ends, and I also struggle to keep the time on all of my appliances week-to-week. I don't know how the EI grid is doing, but feels like reliability has been dropping like a rock west of the Mississippi since ~2014 or so. I used to have a computer plugged directly into the ATX power grid that had ~3 years of uptime. What a fantastical time that was. Now, I am currently having a 50kW standby generator installed (oversized for multi-day operation). I am also investigating multiple fuel sources and smaller auxiliary units. Have to think in 2nd order terms these days. Everyone else is getting a generator installed too.
- beerandt 5y ago
  In-laws installed a generator after a hurricane, maybe 15 years ago. Next hurricane with major power outages they were still sol- so many generators kicked on, combined with gas wells shut-in for the storm, meant the gas grid collapsed. They immediately had a propane backup tank installed that could run things for 2 weeks.

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What service do you have where your grid connection is that unreliable? Is it PG&E? Is it due to their "cautiousness"?

by TheHypnotist 5y ago

What service do you have where your grid connection is that unreliable? Is it PG&E? Is it due to their "cautiousness"?

mrep 5y ago
Not op, but PG&E shut off the power to over 2 million people for 3ish days due to high wind fire risk back in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_California_power_shutoffs#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_California_power_shutoffs...
- coding123 5y ago
  In 2020 it was probably a grand total of 20 days, and restoration took days.
nostrademons 5y ago
Yes, it's PG&E. It's a combination of their cautiousness and their incompetence. Sometimes the power will just go out for reasons unrelated to PSPOs (public safety power outages).
bob1029 5y ago
> the grid isn't there when you need it. > What service do you have where your grid connection is that unreliable? I am in Ercot, right next to where the natural gas pipelines begin and where regulation ends, and I also struggle to keep the time on all of my appliances week-to-week. I don't know how the EI grid is doing, but feels like reliability has been dropping like a rock west of the Mississippi since ~2014 or so. I used to have a computer plugged directly into the ATX power grid that had ~3 years of uptime. What a fantastical time that was. Now, I am currently having a 50kW standby generator installed (oversized for multi-day operation). I am also investigating multiple fuel sources and smaller auxiliary units. Have to think in 2nd order terms these days. Everyone else is getting a generator installed too.
- beerandt 5y ago
  In-laws installed a generator after a hurricane, maybe 15 years ago. Next hurricane with major power outages they were still sol- so many generators kicked on, combined with gas wells shut-in for the storm, meant the gas grid collapsed. They immediately had a propane backup tank installed that could run things for 2 weeks.