More energy conservation needed as CA expects record-breaking power demand
California state officials are asking its citizens to do as much as they can to conserve energy as the state faces the peak of the heat wave Tuesday.
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California state officials are asking its citizens to do as much as they can to conserve energy as the state faces the peak of the heat wave Tuesday.
If Californians don't mind their energy use over the next several days, officials warn, they could force power outages during a punishing heat wave that's hitting Western states.
The California Independent Systems Operator (ISO) has issued another flex alert for Tuesday, Sept. 6th.
He operator of the state's power grid warned of an increasing likelihood of power shortages Monday and Tuesday unless consumers can reduce their energy use even more than they have so far, as California continued to bake under an unusually long heat wave that has produced record high temperatures.
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