Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room
NYT ^

Posted on 10/13/2019 6:59:58 AM PDT by janetjanet998

AN FRANCISCO — It was a problem that California had come to dread. Weather models were signaling extreme winds and dry conditions from one end of the state to the other. The risk of wildfires was high.

Pacific Gas & Electric, the giant utility whose power lines and transformers have been blamed for a series of disastrous wildfires in recent years, was determined to prevent another one. Just before last weekend, the company informed state officials that it might shut off power to a large area of Northern California, potentially leaving millions of people in the dark — something no United States utility had done in recent memory. It made that news public on Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: califblackouts; pgande; pge
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-122 next last
To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Residents were left asking why so many people had to lose power and whether rolling blackouts would become routine as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense.”

I know, it’s absolute crap. California is and has been tinder dry in the summer FOREVER. If there are any increases in wildfires it’s most likely due to the huge increase in population (thanks open borders) and the fact that leftists have been in control for many decades.


61 posted on 10/13/2019 8:12:10 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: ProtectOurFreedom

If you repeat a lie often enough, people begin to believe that it’s the truth. Very sad.


62 posted on 10/13/2019 8:14:09 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Pontiac

It is a macro on their computers.

If they type C they get climate change.

If they type T they get Trump. ;-)


63 posted on 10/13/2019 8:14:27 AM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: joma89

We are fighting a war against stupid, and stupid is winning.


64 posted on 10/13/2019 8:15:47 AM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: righttackle44; rey

Rey wrote “...be in a facility that has one, seek other shelter when they gave more than 72 hours notice.”

If you are going to die within minutes of a power outage, I would have a backup plan. Rey offered two good ones and the second one is zero cost. Power goes out — that’s just a fact of life. I would NEVER stake my life on having 100% reliable power. That is just stupid.

Some charitable organization couldn’t provide him a short-term backup power supply? Are there no family members who could have done that?


65 posted on 10/13/2019 8:16:15 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines

No compensation for excess? That’s chutzpah for ‘ya.

I’d have thought it would drive the meter backwards; so CA utilities do sometime to prevent gears turning in reverse?


66 posted on 10/13/2019 8:18:42 AM PDT by C210N (If you dislike productive billionaires, be 1,000 times more suspect of one confiscatory trillionaire)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: cgbg

I can totally believe that.


67 posted on 10/13/2019 8:18:52 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: janetjanet998

PG&E Just lost an 11 billion settlement from the last big fire. Just filed for bankruptcy. I don’t blame them for shutting it down going forward.


68 posted on 10/13/2019 8:19:42 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FamiliarFace

It is indeed the Hitler (not Goebbels) Big Lie.


69 posted on 10/13/2019 8:19:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Actually three things. You left out oxygen.


70 posted on 10/13/2019 8:20:26 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Beware the homeless industrial complex.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: janetjanet998

The article fails to mention that when PG&E was not doing enough infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, it was spending $2.8 billion extra buying “renewable” energy, to satisfy state mandates written in law, when cheaper wholesale electricity was available from the national grid.


71 posted on 10/13/2019 8:27:47 AM PDT by Wuli
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Starcitizen

Screw PG&E. Firing competent American Engineers and replacing them the low-quality, low-skilled Indian H1Bs.

Commifornia deserves the turd-world mess it’s in now as it’s companies and the state imported millions of turd-worlders. Yes, Indians and Communist Chinese shit wherever they want in their home countries.

__________________________

Good point—one which I have not seen anyone address...

https://www.newsindiatimes.com/pacific-gas-electric-co-use-h-1b-workers-from-tcs-to-ship-72-it-jobs-to-india/

https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/pg-e-announces-offshoring-of-dozens-of-jobs-to-india/article_68e2dbc4-f8a6-11e6-9ab1-7b46e7014af5.html


72 posted on 10/13/2019 8:27:58 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: grame

I call BS on that whole story. My father had lung disease and was on constant oxygen. There was a small tank that fed a nasal cannula. He filled that small tank from a larger tank that looked like a small beer keg. No electronics or electricity needed, it all worked off of pressure.


73 posted on 10/13/2019 8:34:59 AM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Mouton

> If they had generation plants, like NG, nuclear and the like close to where the power is needed, like where people live close together, there would be little need for interstate transmission. <

Excellent point! (President Trump, are you listening? You might want to mention this in a tweet or at a news conference.)


74 posted on 10/13/2019 8:43:26 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: MRadtke

> My father had lung disease and was on constant oxygen. There was a small tank that fed a nasal cannula. He filled that small tank from a larger tank that looked like a small beer keg. <

I know what you mean there. However, there are now machines that take oxygen from the air and concentrate it for use by the patient. No need for that bulky beer keg thing. But those concentrators run on electricity.


75 posted on 10/13/2019 8:51:07 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Mouton

Well, who owns the transmission lines? PG&E got sued.

It was my understanding based on photos that the distribution lines parted and started the fires.


76 posted on 10/13/2019 8:54:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: C210N

at least they can drive their coal-powered electric cars to a shelter...

* * * Excellent!


77 posted on 10/13/2019 9:03:17 AM PDT by poconopundit (Will Kamel Harass pay reparations? Her ancestors were black Slave Owners in Jamaica.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: MrEdd
The Tubbs Fire of 2017 is proof that California is a dysfunctional State. You'd think that wealthy firms like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Intel would do something to fix their neighborhood.

No, they can't even get POOP off the streets of San Francisco.

Click pic to see full screen

78 posted on 10/13/2019 9:11:40 AM PDT by poconopundit (Will Kamel Harass pay reparations? Her ancestors were black Slave Owners in Jamaica.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: American in Israel

What a neat way of getting leverage from decades old art! Nice.


79 posted on 10/13/2019 9:13:18 AM PDT by poconopundit (Will Kamel Harass pay reparations? Her ancestors were black Slave Owners in Jamaica.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: janetjanet998

Don’t worry they can practice again in about a week (another wind event)


Janet, do you have any links for this...I have son in NorCal...Want to keep him posted.


80 posted on 10/13/2019 9:14:00 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-122 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson