Posts Tagged: rolling blackouts

Reliability is crucial to California’s electricity grid

California wind turbines provide electricity carried through nearby power lines.

(Photo: Mark Higgins, via Shutterstock)

by ANDREW TANG posted 08.26.2020

OPINION: As finger-pointing continues over California’s rolling blackouts, some are trying to pin the blame to renewable energy. They are wrong. It’s clear that California’s ambitious renewable energy efforts were not at fault.

To block blackouts, CA should delay local power plant closures

The power plant in El Segundo, Calif. (Photo: Don Solomon, via Shutterstock)

by BRIAN D'ARCY posted 08.26.2020

OPINION: As temperatures soared and wildfires burned across the Southland, California electricity customers recently experienced rolling blackouts for the first time since 2001. Although investigations continue, it appears that there just weren’t enough energy resources available to meet customer demand.