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Customers are being thanked for their efforts to help conserve energy during heat wave. See just how many customers followed issued Flex Alerts.
Battery storage in homes and at businesses contributed to helping the CAISO grid in California afloat during recent difficulties.
The West Coast is facing an unprecedented September heat wave which, according to The Washington Post, has set hundreds of all-time temperature records, as well as records for the month of September, in addition to putting a major strain on the energy grid. Scientists agree that climate change is a key driver of increasingly extreme heat events in the West. On Facebook, however, the most popular posts covering the heat wave completely ignored the root of the problem. California narrowly avoided rolling blackouts, in part due to Flex Alerts that advised residents to avoid engaging in hig...
San Diego Gas & Electric says the culprit of a series of power outages in the Muirlands neighborhood of La Jolla over Labor Day weekend Sept. 3-5 — including one that lasted more than a day — was an “overload condition” caused by “higher-than-expected energy demand” on the circuit that supplies electricity to the area.