With a prolonged heat wave still affecting most of the Bay Area, PG&E and the state’s power grid operator are encouraging people on Wednesday to again reduce their energy use to avoid the possibility of rotating power outages.
The California Independent System Operator, which manages electricity over the state’s high-voltage transmission lines, narrowly avoided having to institute the rolling blackouts Tuesday when the state saw an all-time record high power grid peak demand of 52,061 megawatts.
Nevertheless, there were still tens of thousands of people who lost power due to heat-related outages amid triple-digit temperature heat Tuesday, with about 57,000 customers impacted at the peak around 9 p.m., PG&E spokesperson Deanna Contreras said.
Crews from the utility worked overnight to restore power and got the number of customers affected down to about 3,585 as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, with more than 3,000 of those located in the South Bay.
With temperatures around the Bay Area and elsewhere in the state forecasted to reach triple digits again Wednesday — though slightly lower than Tuesday’s — CAISO has issued another statewide Flex Alert to call for voluntary electricity conservation particularly during the hours of 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The grid operator encourages people to take steps like setting their home or business thermostats to 78 degrees or higher during that time, as well as to avoid the use of major appliances and to turn off any unnecessary lights.
Looks like it’s time to plug my car in again. And fire up the oven to make some pie.
It can”t be easy having freakishly small arms
Blah,blah,blah you in for a bad next 20 years,etc.
How’s the power grid where the operator lives?
What is his AC set at and does he drive an EV?
You know I’m getting really mad at all this! Gavin Newsom loves to claim how were in the top five or seven of the world’s economies, but we can’t keep our power on. How in the hell more often is the power going to go off when we all switch to electric cars by his edict? I think all he’s doing is virtue signaling for his own personal gain.
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Yeah,… NO!
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CalISO can kiss my six.
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I’ll start when Gav and Nancy start.
Knowing that the world’s increasing temps are not going to get better, I certainly hope that those who design the grids are working on ways to increase capacity orvwe are all up a creek.
If you want a good laugh and have Comcast’s Peacock, check out “The End is Nye”. I watched the first episode last night and the first part was entertaining about how civilization could be wiped out by multiple hurricanes. But the second part was hypothetical “woke” solutions pertaining to “global warming”. Made for an SNL skit at that point (Bill Nye was a SNL member). “Pop” science doesn’t work that well as we have seen with how well the EV car thing was thought out if “thinking it through” was any part of the process.
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Bill Nye is a FAKE.
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He’s not even a real scientist. He’s a mechanical engineer.
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He’s a comedian. That’s why I get a laugh out of the series. I know he was on some SNL shows but I may be confusing him with a regular member of that cast.
Want to see something really funny, check out “Sprung” on FreeVee. It’s about some prison inmates who get released at the start of the pandemic. Pretty good farce about Covid.
Do you know who never conserves anything? Liberal politicians, for one, but all the folks on welfare getting free or reduced energy. They won’t conserve. Never.
The state government is doing everything it can to curtail production of electricity.
When will the people demand better?
Only the people can make a change, the politician never will.
Visited Baja California a few years back during a Cat II Hurricane and the lights didn’t so much as flicker.
What’s wrong with this picture?