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Those are interesting mental gymnastics you just did. Rolling “black outs” in California in recent years were due to two reasons. When we approached maximum ca
by thephyber 5y ago
Those are interesting mental gymnastics you just did.
Rolling “black outs” in California in recent years were due to two reasons. When we approached maximum capacity, the California ISO requested large electrical users voluntarily reduce usage. In times and places where that wasn’t enough, some areas saw black outs. This is because demand on the hottest parts of the hottest days of the year breached supply/capacity by the western electrical grid.
Further, PG&E (one energy provider in. Ali for us) did create blackouts during weather that was most likely to cause fires with their equipment. These had nothing to do with electrical load/capacity, but with environmental factors.
PG&E has struggled to prune foliage from their equipment, which is one of the causes of recent fires. They claim environmental regulations are onerous, but this is the same company that went into bankruptcy after poisoning multiple towns (causing cancer cluster) and allowing a neighborhood in San Bruno to explode due to lack of proper maintenance on their natural gas lines. They were also found guilty of deaths (murder?) in some more recent fires.
- refurb 5y agoPrecisely. Not sure people who live in glass houses should be throwing stones.