For posterity - NERC's report addresses fires specifically and even breaks out individual fires. Yes, people losing power in California happened for extended pe

For posterity - NERC's report addresses fires specifically and even breaks out individual fires. Yes, people losing power in California happened for extended periods but many more people did not lose power and PG&E was not the only utility implicated there. Besides, natural disasters happen yearly and if you read NERC's report, you'll see that there are far more outages due to storms than wildfires. My only gripe here is that this by itself, does not quality PG&E's grid as "unreliable". As for non-wires alternatives, I can point to several reports, some from NERC, some NREL and others private companies that have found - over and over again - that the path towards more grid reliability involves better transmission and stronger distribution. Batteries and solar can delay the investment needed, not substitute them altogether.