California heat wave: 3 Bay Area cities needlessly cut power to homes
Three cities appear to have mistakenly instituted blackouts after a miscommunication with the operator of the California electric grid.
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Three cities appear to have mistakenly instituted blackouts after a miscommunication with the operator of the California electric grid.
Due to the historic demand on the power grid, California residents are being asked to conserve energy again on September 7th from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
It hit 115 degrees in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, breaking the city's all-time high-temperature record of 113 degrees set in 1913. And that wasn't even the only Bay Area city to see its all-time record broken.
California is facing its highest chance of blackouts this year as a brutal heat wave continues to blanket the state with triple-digit temperatures. State energy officials said the electrical load Tuesday afternoon could top 51,000 megawatts, the highest demand the state has ever seen. As people crank up their air conditioners, the state forecasted record…
LOS ANGELES -- A record-setting heat wave made life miserable in much of the West on Tuesday, with California stretching into its second week of excessive heat that taxed the state's power supply with record-setting demand and brought it perilously close to ordering rolling outages while people were desperately trying to stay cool.