California heat wave: Flex Alert extended through Labor Day
Californians are asked to conserve power from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Labor Day as the state continues to scorch under triple-digit temperatures in many places.
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Californians are asked to conserve power from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Labor Day as the state continues to scorch under triple-digit temperatures in many places.
An excessive heat warning was extended to last through Wednesday in Santa Clarita, while a statewide Flex Alert was issued today.
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) is stepping up its call for consumers to lower electricity use in the afternoons and evenings to avoid outages over the next few days. Starting tomorrow, this multi-day event is going to get much more intense. We are facing a load forecast of 48,817...
According to Cal-ISO, electrical demand on Thursday topped out at 47,357 megawatts, the highest figure since September 2017. The agency projected that demand could exceed that number on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, with Tuesday's forecast at 49,000 megawatts.
California faces a risk rolling blackouts on Labor Day amid a heat wave and record levels of electricity demand that the grid cannot meet.