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> California had a capacity-related blackout lasting less than an hour affecting fewer than 1% of customers, more than a year ago. So, no? I'm not sure where y
by merlincorey 5y ago
> California had a capacity-related blackout lasting less than an hour affecting fewer than 1% of customers, more than a year ago. So, no?
I'm not sure where you got your information, but last year more than 800,000 homes and businesses unexpectedly lost power for 2 days according to NBC[0].
This year, in order to prevent the unexpected loss of power, many people were subjected to Rolling Blackouts[1] where their power was scheduled to be turned off for hours at a time and they had no choice in the matter.
[0] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-warned-brace-another-summer-energy-blackouts-n1268879 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-warned-brace...
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout
- jeffbee 5y agoOddly enough I prefer primary sources over mainstream TV stations. http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Final-Root-Cause-Analysis-Mid-August-2020-Extreme-Heat-Wave.pdf http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Final-Root-Cause-Analysis-Mid... The characterization that anyone "lost power for 2 days" is totally wrong. The longest period of load shedding in August 2020 was 150 minutes affecting 300k customers. 500MW of load was disconnected, that's ~1% of the CAISO demand.
- merlincorey 5y agoLoad Shedding is the planned rolling blackouts. People unexpectedly lost power for up to 2 days.
- Retric 5y agoPower loss for 2 days has nothing to do with insufficient generating capacity. When that happens they do rolling blackouts across large area to avoid people freezers melting etc. If nothing else demand varies over the course of the day so unless there is very widespread issues with generation like in Texas generation capacity should be sufficient at some point in the day.