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Is this why Calfornia energy is so expensive and constantly having blackouts?

• standardUser 4y ago
  Viewers of a certain cable channel seem to have a uniquely long memory about this. But the last time there was widespread problems with the electric grid in California was a generation ago.
• jeffbee 4y ago
  No, because California isn't constantly having blackouts. There was one really infamous (among habitual Fox News viewers) capacity-related blackout in late 2020, in which fewer than 1% of customers were disconnected for less than 1 hour. That was precipitated by the sudden shutdown of Diablo Canyon, a nuclear power station. California hasn't had a capacity-related intentional disconnect since then.
  • cge 4y ago
    There have also been the intentional blackouts of a sort, if I recall correctly, but those were to mitigate fire risk, not because of capacity, and aren't particularly related to electricity generation.
    • svachalek 4y ago
      Yup, thanks to poor power line maintenance burning down big swathes of the state, we established the totally modern, first world solution of shutting off the power when it's hot and windy. But massive unintentional blackouts like say, Texas, nope not here.
    • rubyist5eva 4y ago
      Thanks for the extra context - went back and refreshed my memory and you are both correct. These are the articles I remember reading about CA blackouts from: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/california-wildfires-power-outages-1.5332313 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/california-wildfires-power-out... https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/california-heat-wave-1.5687895 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/california-heat-wave-1.5687895
• outworlder 4y ago
  No, that's PG&E's fault. There are other operators, see other comments I've made in this thread.