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Related: About this forumLAIST: Why the heat wave hasn't taken down the state's power grid
July has brought record-breaking heat for this time of year to much of the Southland, mostly inland. But we havent been hit with flex alerts or concerns about rolling power outages due to a boost in battery storage.
More battery storage: The state has nearly doubled its amount of battery storage in just the last two years. Thats kept the grid stable during hot evenings when solar power declines. Increased coordination and cooperation around the state and the West also helped. California has even had energy left over to share with other western states facing electricity shortages, helping avoid outages even when a power demand record was broken on the broader western energy grid.
The background: The last time we had flex alerts calls to voluntarily conserve energy was during a record-long heat wave in early September 2022. The state avoided rolling power outages because people heeded the call to conserve energy. And the last time we had rolling power outages was in 2020, when wildfires and heat put record strain on the power grid.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/heat-wave-power-grid
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LAIST: Why the heat wave hasn't taken down the state's power grid (Original Post)
DBoon
Jul 23
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padfun
(1,832 posts)1. And here in Sacramento we have SMUD
Sacramento Municipal Utility District. It is a quasi-government nonprofit utility company. Our electric bills are cheaper than PGE and we haven't had blackouts from heat in a very long time. We've has power outages due to wind taking down lines, but I've never gone more than 8-10 hours without. And that was 20 years ago or so.
DBoon
(22,833 posts)2. I'm in LA DWP - land
same thing. Public power rocks!
AllaN01Bear
(22,149 posts)3. great. this was bantered about in the 1970s during the so called oil embargo and so was research into
fuel cells . better late than never . would love to see fuel cells brought on line too. conserving is good too.