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2020-08-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

California Issues First Rolling Blackouts Since 2001, As Heat Wave Bakes Western U.S.

[NPR.ORG] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, electrical providers instituted rolling blackouts Friday night — the first since 2001—as an intense and prolonged heat wave settled over much of the Western U.S.Hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have experienced brief power outages through the evening, after the body that manages most of the state's electrical utilities declared a Stage 3 emergency to help reduce stress on the larger grid.

Electrical demand surged through the day as temperatures topped the triple digits in many parts of the state and people cranked up fans and air conditioning units to try and stay cool.

Posted by Fred 2020-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Great job shoring up the grid Kamala. You are SO qualified to lead the rest of the 49 states into third world status. Just remember, no electricity, no running water either.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-08-16 00:50|| 2020-08-16 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Utilities have a fraught history with politicians:

"Republicans" - "Pay the bribes and we will leave you alone."

Utility companies - "OK..."

Democrats - "Pay the bribes and we will ~~leave you alone~~ give you death by 1000 lawsuits."

Utility companies - "OK..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-16 03:50|| 2020-08-16 03:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Welcome to Socialist Paradise of Caracas.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-08-16 06:59|| 2020-08-16 06:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Silly Californians. If they only went with 100% electric vehicles they could plug them into the grid and run the grid off all the extra electricity stored in the cars battery acquired by charging the cars overnight off the solar cells on the roof.

Posted by ECOnhzna 2020-08-16 08:22|| 2020-08-16 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Murcek sadly is spot on.

#4, yup.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-08-16 08:44|| 2020-08-16 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 /\#2, Spot on. Their is a limit to greed and no limit to Fascism.

Posted by magpie 2020-08-16 11:16|| 2020-08-16 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Electrical demand surged through the day as temperatures topped the triple digits in many parts of the state and people cranked up fans and air conditioning units to try and stay cool.

So in NPR world it's a demand-side problem rather than a failure of California's gummint to anticipate the need for increased supply ("We see no reason why it should get hot this summer"). Swelter for Gaia.

Posted by Matt 2020-08-16 11:34|| 2020-08-16 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 The last time CA did this Gray Davis, a democrat, was governor. He lost his next election to Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican. Wouldn't it be nice if history repeated itself?

Posted by warthogswife 2020-08-16 12:00|| 2020-08-16 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 “It’s known as ‘heat death,’ where the universe will be mostly black holes and burned-out stars.”

Different topic, but the quote seemed timely.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-16 12:25|| 2020-08-16 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Electrical demand surged through the day as temperatures topped the triple digits in many parts of the state and people cranked up fans and air conditioning units to try and stay cool.

This actually happens every summer in SC, and we have yet to experience any blackouts at all.

Posted by Tom 2020-08-16 15:13|| 2020-08-16 15:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe the problem is too many people (thanks immigrants) in Caliphate-ornia.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-08-16 15:50|| 2020-08-16 15:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Part of the problem is virtue-signalling electricity production via interstate grids out-of-state in Coal, Nat Gas, Solar, Wind.

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-16 16:37|| 2020-08-16 16:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't forget, they got rid of all that icky nuclear power.

Posted by Bobby 2020-08-16 16:59|| 2020-08-16 16:59|| Front Page Top

#14 My daughter's family bought a house even more San Diego County rural than I. I gave them twin Honda Generators as a house-warming gift for when SDG&E shuts off powerlines for Santa Ana winds/temps

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-16 17:07|| 2020-08-16 17:07|| Front Page Top

#15 So they hang them in serial (how?) for fueling change out?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-16 23:32|| 2020-08-16 23:32|| Front Page Top

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