Blackouts could hit as many as 3 million California homes and business Sunday evening as an epic heat wave smothers the West, the manager of the state’s electricity grid said.
It would be one of the largest blackouts in California history, if not the largest.
After narrowly avoiding blackouts Saturday night, the Independent System Operator, which runs the grid, said it was facing a shortfall of 4,000 megawatts unless Californians comply with urgent pleas for conservation.
“Without really significant conservation and help from customers today, we’re going to have to have rolling outages. This is an appeal for people to help us out,” the ISO’s vice president for operations, Eric Schmitt, told reporters. “Today is sizing up as our most challenging day of the year. We have very severe conditions on the grid.”
The blackouts could begin around 5 p.m.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article245533025.html#storylink=mainstage_lead
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