From that power outage map, I see only a couple of areas with outages and only affecting about 5K homes. Nothing that indicates demand shortages. In our area we

From that power outage map, I see only a couple of areas with outages and only affecting about 5K homes. Nothing that indicates demand shortages. In our area we get that sometimes when the wind blows down a couple of trees. Why do you assume that anyone is expecting EVs to arrive without needing additional electrical generation capacity? That makes no sense. There has been a lot of discussion and planning around expanding generation. Here is one: The Biden administration just announced the first-ever California offshore wind lease sale https://electrek.co/2022/10/18/us-california-offshore-wind-lease-sale/ https://electrek.co/2022/10/18/us-california-offshore-wind-l... People over estimate the impact of EVs on the grid, Even after EVs have reached 18% of vehicle sales in CA, they use less than 1% of the power produced. It will be at least a decade before most cars might be EVs. That is enough time to increase the power generation capacity. “Though California has more electric cars than any other state, they make up just .4% of all energy consumption during peak hours. Even at 2030 estimates, some 5.6 million electric cars, trucks, and vans would only comprise 4% of peak loads.” https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/16/electric-cars-power-grid/ https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/16/electric-cars-power-grid...