Axios has reported that PG&E who supplies 16 million people in California with electricity has stated intentional blackouts like the one that occurred this month could be needed for 10 years:
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PG&E has stated intentional blackouts like the one that occurred this month could be needed for 10 years, PG&E supplies 16 million people in CA
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Horrific - here in my state in Australia the utilities literally can not sell enough power because the solar uptake has been so strong so they are operating at losses and the value of their plants are slashed.
SF is actually trying to buy out & take over PG&E's lines in the city. So far, they've declined to sell stating that the SF bid is too low.
Yep, the benefits of allowing monopolies of essential services.
I fucking hate California. So much wealth and money and yet politicians don't do shit about our garbage infrastructure and crippling homelessness.
It's so frustrating
It's so frustrating
One of the common arguments in favor of Net Neutrality has always been "what if they treated other basic utilities like water and electricity like your broadband service?"
Well...now they are. #America
Well...now they are. #America
Maybe instead of that horrendous light speed rail thing that keeps coming in and out of development, they just cancel that, use those billions of dollars to wipe out the board of PG&E and take it over as a state utility and use the rest of the money to repair all the broken shit across the state that's needed repairing for decades now.
Yeah here in western Canada we sell hydro power for pennies to the US
A free market would mean their customers could up and switch to another utility company. Is that the case here?
Yep. Living in Sac county is great. Only deal with PG&E for gas. SMUD (sacramento power) isnt that bad.
This is crazy to think about, when all my life (almost 34 years now), here in Germany, there were like 2 instances of power outages and they lasted for like a minute or two. And they were big deals in the press the day after. O.o
We're talking very different cpacities of course but I wouldn't be all that comfortable with my power provider telling me that power might just randomly go out over the next 10-year span.
We're talking very different cpacities of course but I wouldn't be all that comfortable with my power provider telling me that power might just randomly go out over the next 10-year span.
Temp power outages in cali use to be common a in the early 2000s with Rolling Blackouts due to energy crisis. Thanks Enron!
Thank their lobbying to basically make it illegal to run any other sort of power, but I'm pretty sure tesla is gonna try to push some sort of program for the worse effected areas to get their house batteries.
That sounds like my internet connection. Germany is a developing Nation when it comes to that... :P
As a Technician for a major Telecom, I still install internet sometimes that is less than 1m, its silly how far behind we are here too.
iTz nOt A mOnoPoly just like Disney it's basically a mom and pop shop.
Yea heard good things about SMUD, though my ex just liked them because PG&E was so bad
Yeah I use to think smud wasn't amazing until I heard stories of pg&e from family lol.
If the PG&E just gives up and is willing to sell their whole infrastructure today. The necesarry load flow studies, rennovations, appropiations, constructions, etc would probably take 3-5 years to make the necessary improvements. The right time to look into this was 15 years ago.
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Can PG&E customers make demands to California government for them to take over PG&E's infrastructure?
This is by design. Minimal possible service and you can't really protest cause it's a monopoly. Fast forward 3-4 years, rich people go around saying that everyone should buy a battery to be eco-conscious, and fuck you got mine i ain't paying more for electricity only because you poor fucks can't afford a 10k battery.
At least at this rate California will have a lot of energy storage making solar farms the best energy source for cost by a country mile. When even 10% of your population has a battery, solar drawbacks basically disappear, provided there are gas plants (sadly wind in california has the same seasonal profile as solar so you can't really use it to compensate its seasonality, unlike EU) to pick up the slack in winter.
At least at this rate California will have a lot of energy storage making solar farms the best energy source for cost by a country mile. When even 10% of your population has a battery, solar drawbacks basically disappear, provided there are gas plants (sadly wind in california has the same seasonal profile as solar so you can't really use it to compensate its seasonality, unlike EU) to pick up the slack in winter.
Like I said, do you think government takeover will make this cheaper or faster?
