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The thread title and most of the comments are NOT supported by the Sacramento Bee article
California consumers heeded calls to conserve energy,
the thread title IS the SacBee article title.
You have no proof of that.
...I ignore the power authority BS because I don't pay them for my electricity. I pay this ridiculous 'green' co-op or whatever that I along with most of Alameda County were forced to join (we don't get our power from PG&E anymore, just distribution).
Eric Holder saysthe thread title IS the SacBee article title.
Whatever causation is implied by the headline is not supported by the body text. The Bee was once a very respectable publication. This is a Breitbart/Fox level headline/body text mismatch.
Whatever causation is implied by the headline
Eric Holder saysI made it a point to opt out of that shit when there was a window to do so.
Yeah, but you pay some fee for doing so. And the math didn't work for me so...
they installed a shed-load of clean-burning natural gas combined cycle peaker power units. Problem solved.
California? Nope. So now we are suffering, like some shithole thrid world country, setting the power off without warning when you need it most.
Get your facts straight. The problem isn't a lack of connections to adequate generating capacity. The problem is some power generators holding off selling power they have readily available to California until the price rises. It's a mini Enron situation again, and like the last time people are blaming "hippie/liberal policies" while Republican businessmen manipulating the market are the actual underlying cause.
The problem isn't a lack of connections to adequate generating capacity. The problem is some power generators holding off selling power they have readily available to California until the price rises.
...I ignore the power authority BS because I don't pay them for my electricity. I pay this ridiculous 'green' co-op or whatever that I along with most of Alameda County were forced to join (we don't get our power from PG&E anymore, just distribution).
Why doesn't this happen in other states?
The reason we ended up with blackouts was, electricity providers with excess power to sell held out waiting for the price to rise to premium levels due to the "emergency." Instead of just paying whatever multiple of whatever they can legally sell the electricity for, they forced a reduction in demand.
This was not, repeat NOT a generation or transmission problem. It was a market problem. The driver was not liberal or environmental policies, but simple human greed.
Our generating capacity is at tight margin
Oh, and you forgot to link Trump into your conspiracy.
Except when it says exactly what it says: California stopped an outage after Trumped ripped them for it.
This was not, repeat NOT a generation or transmission problem. It was a market problem, and the blackouts were a harsh market solution. The driver was not liberal or environmental policies, but simple human greed.
LOL: today NPR admitted that the blackout was caused by power plant(s) being ordered to ramp down production amid the spike in energy demand. Said it was an "innocent mistake".
1,000 megawatts of wind power dropping off because the wind stopped blowing faster than a Kamala Harris blow job constitutes a generation problem.
I'll tell you what. If I lived in the next state over and I saw knuckleheads doing what they're doing here I sure as shit would raise the prices on them as high as I legally fucking can
So did the energy hoarders shut down generating capacity? Or did they find some way to store electricity in a capacitor until the price goes up?
Nice when you spell out your corrupt morals and ethics while blaming "other political party" for the outcomes of the behavior you glorify and identify with. Good to see exactly who we're hearing from.
The reason we ended up with blackouts was, electricity providers with excess power to sell held out waiting for the price to rise to premium levels due to the "emergency." Instead of just paying whatever multiple of the amount they can legally sell the electricity for, they forced a reduction in demand.
Interesting. So did the energy hoarders shut down generating capacity? Or did they find some way to store electricity in a capacitor until the price goes up?
The Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s struggling power grid, called off its alerts at 8 p.m., ending the threat of a blackout that was projected to leave 2 million homes and businesses without electricity.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article245054500.html#storylink=mainstage_card4