Sizzling temperatures today prompted the California Independent System Operator to issue a statewide Flex Alert, calling for residents to conserve electricity between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Much of the Bay Area and Monterey Bay region will face excessive heat today and Saturday due to a high-pressure system from the southwest, according to the National Weather Service.
The heat wave is affecting California and the southwest. In the Bay Area, it is expected to ease up on Sunday, only to return early next week.
An increase in electric demand is predicted, mostly due to residential air conditioning, which sparked the statewide Flex Alert.
Residents are urged to conserve electricity, especially during the late afternoon and early evening, when the grid is most stressed.
Consumers are urged to set air conditioner thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, turn off unnecessary lights, and use major appliances before 3 p.m. and after 10 p.m.
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People should do this everyday no matter what the outside temp is. Why be wasteful.
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It’s good to be in Block 50.
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agreed. Sharing a circuit with the CPD is something I’ll mention when I go to sell my house.
“Consumers are urged to set air conditioner thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, turn off unnecessary lights, and use major appliances before 3 p.m. and after 10 p.m”
I’m sorry but no, I’m not going to do this. I’m all for caring for the environment and conserving, but I’m not going to be miserable in this heat.
Let me suggest something else, PG&E: How about simply providing customers with a reliable, safe electricity grid and supply? Or is that just too much to ask?
Mary Fouts – The current (Sept) issue of Consumer Reports has a page on home standby generators. Not a whole lot of info because they want you to to subscribe to their website. The magazine does list their 3 top picks in 2 sizes along with prices and some characteristics. I have trusted CU over the decades and their recommendations have always been true for me.
Kirkwood -Thanks! We just got done with exterior house painting and want to take a bit of a mental break (plus other personal issues I need to decompress from,) before getting the whole house generator installed and the related commotion. Only other home issue is 2 trees to trim, but that’s minor, no emergency. I’ll call Chandler’s Tree Care next week.
It is amazing the improvements in units over the past year. And yep, price has gone up. I will look at the CR website. I’ll post after this project is finished about the experience. Mary
I had a large standby generator at work which I exercised under load weekly (Failure was not an option.) I used California Diesel and Power in Martinez for service and repair. That was 20 years ago so they’ve likely had a large personnel turnover by now.
With so many businesses shut down shouldn’t there be ‘extra’ electricity available for residential use now?
Logic and sanity are not allowed.
Please light hair on fire and cower from the flu.
Yeah Mike, that’s what I was going to say. Betcha they’re still running on pre-pandemic models.
No thanks. The government in all its glory and genius should first shut off the AC at all government buildings, they’re using our money for it anyway along with shutting off all the lights in all the buildings once everyone goes home.
2nd, since California knows what is best, they should be upgrading the electric grid to handle all the people they are welcoming here.
3rd, I work my ass of and never had a day off during this “pandemic”. I’m gonna run my AC if I so choose. Y’all take enough of my paycheck and do nothing with it I’m not going to suffer because you guys can’t stop leeching money for your pet projects.
Excellent point Kauai Mike! They are so full of ….
Still trying to figure out how that works when California leads the Nation with solar powered homes.
These homes generate enough to power their house and two or three others.
Makes ZERO sense…….unless that power is going to Arizona or Nevada.
I went by the old Kmart and all the light inside are on. That’s not the first time that I noticed them on.
Those lights are on 24 – 7 probably for security.
I agree with the folks who say that we, as rate payers, should expect PG&E to supply sufficient energy to meet our needs.
We pay more for electricity than almost everyone else in the US.
Yet our service is substandard to many companies that charge a lot less.
The people we vote to represent us in the management of CA have failed over and over again to reign in PG&E.
We need much better representation at all levels of Government.
An we used to have peaker plants to handle peak Summer load demands but they weren’t green enough. As far as price, liberal politicians and bureaucrats want to show the entire world how green CA can be.
Simple solution, send a message to liberal politicians, start voting them out of office.
shareholder profit / Safety
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/long-term-wear-found-on-pge-line-that-sparked-camp-fire/2151906/