PG&E could shut off power to 25,000 in Northern and Central California due to high winds

[libertybele]

PG&E could shut off power to 25,000 in Northern and Central California due to high winds

Thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers in Northern and Central California could be without power starting Monday as fast-moving winds increase the potential for fire danger.

PG&E had announced Saturday that about 44,000 customers could lose power in the region starting Monday morning, but by Sunday scaled down the size of the potential outage.

Initially, PG&E said that residents in 32 counties and seven tribes might be included in the planned outage. As of Sunday afternoon, the company said 25,000 residents in 22 counties and five tribes could be included.

With the scaled-down plans for outages, residents of Placer and El Dorado counties no longer are expected to be impacted.

In the Sacramento area, Yolo County remains among those areas potentially affected by the blackouts. According to PG&E, 515 customers in Yolo County could have their power switched off. ............

https://www.sacbee.com/news/weather-news/article254904282.html

[DB]

From the state that claims to be the technology center of the world can't even keep its power on...

[PeteS in CA]

It's not about ability or technology, its decades of Enviros through cooperative courts preventing proper tree trimming from around power lines.

[DB]

It's not about ability or technology, its decades of Enviros through cooperative courts preventing proper tree trimming from around power lines.

No. It is about the state holding the power companies legally responsible for fires started from power lines due to high winds and unmanaged vegetation. When the state did this it was obvious what was going to follow - and it did. High winds and dry conditions, no power.

But that isn't the only cause of rolling blackouts in California. Blackouts that were occurring prior to all the fires. The second cause is demand exceeding an unreliable capacity. Capacity that varies daily depending on wind and sun that California cannot control. And that is entirely technological in cause. California went heavy into "renewable" energy instead of reliable energy first. This outcome was also easy to predict - and it is happening now.

And on top of all that California has the most expensive electricity of virtually any state. Lowering the standard of living for everyone and forcing industries that require energy for production to move out of state.

[PeteS in CA]

No. It is about the state holding the power companies legally responsible for fires started from power lines due to high winds and unmanaged vegetation. When the state did this it was obvious what was going to follow - and it did. High winds and dry conditions, no power.
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Without the "unmanaged vegetation" there would not have been the massive fires for which PG&E could be held responsible. The "unmanaged vegetation" and court decisions (and regs on which the various lawsuits were based) causing that lack of vegetation management are the root cause of the high-wind shutdowns. Chopping off the financial responsibility branch would leave the causative roots and stem in place.

The brown-outs and rotating black-outs are not relevant to the high-wind shutdowns that this thread is about. More decades of gooberment F-ups, just not relevant.

[skeeter]

Without the "unmanaged vegetation" there would not have been the massive fires for which PG&E could be held responsible. The "unmanaged vegetation" and court decisions (and regs on which the various lawsuits were based) causing that lack of vegetation management are the root cause of the high-wind shutdowns. Chopping off the financial responsibility branch would leave the causative roots and stem in place.

The brown-outs and rotating black-outs are not relevant to the high-wind shutdowns that this thread is about. More decades of gooberment F-ups, just not relevant.

same basic problem with our water supply - environmentalism is being used as an excuse to neglect the watershed, causing shortages. The state has more pressing, political uses for that money.

[GtHawk]

same basic problem with our water supply - environmentalism is being used as an excuse to neglect the watershed, causing shortages. The state has more pressing, political uses for that money.

You mean like providing a better standard of living to illegals than many legal Californians, or the continued money pit of Moonbeams Bullshit Train?