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Power safety shut offs robust? Flex alerts robust? Are you trolliing....? Or, are you just blowing some smoke up our keisters, BOB2?
Author: MeSoRobust2
Date: 09-20-2021 - 17:26
"The power grid is pretty robust" -BOB2
AUG. 24, 2020 5:30 AM PT
State officials are poised to decide whether four gas-fired power plants along the Southern California coast should keep running past 2020, in the first major energy decision for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration after this month’s blackouts.
The aging, inefficient facilities are being required to close under a policy meant to end the environmentally damaging use of ocean water for power plant cooling.
But energy regulators have been pushing since last year to delay the retirement deadlines, warning that insufficient power supplies could cause Californians to lose electricity on hot summer evenings — the exact situation millions of people found themselves in during two evenings of brief rotating outages.
Even before the blackouts Aug. 14 and 15, the debate over how and when to close the coastal gas plants offered a preview of challenges California will increasingly face as it accelerates its transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
But only last year, after California’s power grid operator began warning of looming capacity shortfalls on summer evenings, did the state’s Public Utilities Commission order companies such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric to buy thousands of megawatts of new supply.
californias-clean-grid-lean-oil-gas-avoid-summer-blackouts-2021-08-11
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AUG. 24, 2020 5:30 AM PT
State officials are poised to decide whether four gas-fired power plants along the Southern California coast should keep running past 2020, in the first major energy decision for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration after this month’s blackouts.
The aging, inefficient facilities are being required to close under a policy meant to end the environmentally damaging use of ocean water for power plant cooling.
But energy regulators have been pushing since last year to delay the retirement deadlines, warning that insufficient power supplies could cause Californians to lose electricity on hot summer evenings — the exact situation millions of people found themselves in during two evenings of brief rotating outages.
Even before the blackouts Aug. 14 and 15, the debate over how and when to close the coastal gas plants offered a preview of challenges California will increasingly face as it accelerates its transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
But only last year, after California’s power grid operator began warning of looming capacity shortfalls on summer evenings, did the state’s Public Utilities Commission order companies such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric to buy thousands of megawatts of new supply.
californias-clean-grid-lean-oil-gas-avoid-summer-blackouts-2021-08-11
2021-08-19/california-to-build-temporary-gas-plants-to-avoid-blackouts
California+power+safety+shut+off
