Please stop working. The people of California don't want to wind up living like citizens of North Korea.
Wait until the electric train starts dragging things offline. 😂
Maybe Grey Davis can come back in a consulting role....
Incompetent is government’s first last and middle name
I remember back to 2000 or 2001. California was in a heat emergency and having a shortage of electricity!
I joked with a California friend that we here in the Southwest Power Pool(SPP) had so much excess electricity we were opening outlets and letting it drain out on the ground.
Battery storage is miniscule compared to demand and will not prevent blackouts anyway. Behind the scenes, the projected rise in demand for electric power due to AI processors will require huge increases over today’s production levels. Add in increasing EV demand, possible electric trains if they ever build one, and the case for nuclear power is peremptory and compelling. They’d do well to start now.
Please stop working. The people of California don't want to wind up living like citizens of North Korea.
Can Californians still use the term ‘black’ outs? ;)
I wonder with today’s power grid if California’s grid collapses that could pull down the whole US grid?
The worse it gets in CA, the better...
It is what the CA voters want...
It’s ok, Californians love this kind of thing.
Gee, I wonder how many alerts I’ll get from my California city during heat waves to NOT plug in EVs?
Got quite a number of them last summer.
That’s racist.
and higher electricity costs - less for more, the Marxist Way.
THE BIGGEST BLACKOUTS ARE BETWEEN NEWSON’S EARS
Even the largest battery plants have yet to be able to power even a small city for 24 hours. Californians better stock up on candles
Kalifornia...a state with 3% EVs on the road...has regular blackouts in the summer.Texas...a state with 1% EVs on the road...has blackouts in winter.
It actually can. There are so many solar installs on the roofs of homes and out in the deserts that we generate surplus electricity on most days of the year. We could subsidize energy costs for factories and office buildings and lower the costs of running a business in CA. We produce so much electricity that the utilities actually dump it - they aren’t in the business of giving away electricity. Instead of using that to attract businesses and cut their operating costs they deliberately discard the surplus to keep prices artificially high. CA has some of the highest energy costs in the country yet it actually produces huge amounts of surplus energy day after day.
Peak usage is 4 to 9 pm not during daylight hours when the factories and buildings are operating. We could use that to attract low carbon use industry, but we don’t. The bureaucrats and politicians don’t even think about it. The utilities sure as heck don’t want to.
Well, who would protest a reduction of light pollution? Astronomers will thank you.