California residents are once again struggling to keep their electricity on after last weekend's heatwave left up to 50,000 people without power and forced the famed Hollywood Bowl to cancel a concert due to a power outage.
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of Hollywood Bowl The September 8th performance had to be cancelled due to a power outage.
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of Reporter The cause of the outage is unknown, but KABC-7 Condemned Heat:
The heat was affecting electrical equipment, causing power companies to scramble to send in workers.
As a result, thousands of people were left without air conditioning or cooling on the hottest day of the year.
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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power crews were working as quickly as possible to restore power to about 50,000 customers, but the wait could be harrowing.
The weekend blackouts that began Friday marked at least the third time in the past five years that Californians have had to endure power outages during warm weather — and without the high winds that would have caused power companies to cut off service amid fears that power lines could topple and start fires.
During the 2020 blackouts, Governor Gavin Newsom (Democrat) warned Californians they needed to “calm down” on green energy.
But within weeks, Governor Newsom renewed his green energy push, announcing a ban on new gasoline-powered vehicle sales by 2035. (He acknowledged earlier this year that California still faces power outages, despite investments in new battery capacity.)
Governor Newsom has not issued any warnings to California residents about the current heat wave, which has been ongoing for days.
California's Flex Alert page Showed Despite localized issues, the power grid as a whole has sufficient capacity.
Still, California faces a continued risk of power shortages as it moves toward its goal of “net-zero” emissions and a 100% carbon-free electricity grid by 2045. In practice, that means shutting down fossil fuel power plants and relying on wind and solar energy. The state has only one operating nuclear plant left, which remains at risk of closure.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member Alicia Finley journal on monday, attention:
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass blamed Friday's blackouts on “extreme heat.” The real culprit is the state's climate policies. If California goes into darkness, the rest of the US could follow suit.
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All of these are reasons The Los Angeles Public Accountability Office this summerIt recommended the city scale back its goal of reaching 100% renewable energy by 2035, and warned that city utilities risk becoming obsolete if they adopt expensive battery technology. Sacramento's Democrats aren't worried: They're telling utilities to build more batteries and providing subsidies to homeowners.
Cynics might suspect that some welcome the blackouts in the hope that they will encourage people to buy batteries; pragmatists might buy fossil fuel-powered generators before they are also chased out of the state.
Instead of learning from California's alarming example, Democrats have adopted it in other states, most notably Minnesota, where Gov. Tim Walz, the vice presidential candidate, signed a bill requiring local utilities to achieve carbon-free generation by 2040 — five years sooner than California, and with far fewer annual emissions. Sunshine.
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