Blackouts Expose Perils And Costs Of California’s ‘Electrify Everything’ Push

Blackouts Expose Perils And Costs Of California’s ‘Electrify Everything’ Push

A man sits in the shade of his umbrella at the Dog Park under high tension power lines in Redondo ... [+] Beach, California on August 16, 2020. On August 14, the state ordered rolling power outages for the first time since 2001 as a statewide heat wave strained its electrical system. Pacific Gas & Electric, the states largest utility, tweeted that it would turn off power to about 200,000 to 250,000 customers in rotating outages for about an hour at a time. (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP) (Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)



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The blackouts that hit California over the past few days exposed the fragility of one of the most-expensive and least-reliable electric grids in North