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Were that many people still at work after dark inside Salesforce Tower on Tuesday night? Or was the building being a hypocrite while half its lights were on, telling us all to save power with a blaring message across its crown.

Ready San Diego has checklists of what you should do before, during and after a power outage

Get information about power outages and possible rolling blackouts in the Bay Area and California.

With electricity demand possibly hitting a historic all-time high for the state on Tuesday amid a prolonged heat wave, the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, warned residents to be ready for potential rotating power outages in the evening hours.

A record-breaking heat wave has baked the West for days -- setting record high temperatures, fueling destructive wildfires and threatening rolling power shutoffs in California -- and it could last even longer due to the effects of a strengthening hurricane along Mexico's Pacific coast.

Californians are being asked to conserve power for the eighth day in a row as the state's grid operator expects another day of strain on the energy grid on Wednesday.

"the state endured the hottest day in this prolonged, record-breaking heat wave"

With electricity demand reaching record levels due to a drawn-out heat wave, Southern California and the whole state avoided rolling power blackouts as the manager of the power grid called for maximum conservation efforts by residents.

San Diego County is finally going to get some relief from the heat this weekend but it’s thanks to a hurricane that is approaching the Southern California...

A brutal Western heat wave brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts but the state’s electrical grid has managed to handle record-breaking...