Summer is coming. It's getting hotter. Can California keep the lights on?
Print This is the June 3, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. It feels like just yesterday that California was roiled by rolling blackouts during an epic summer heat wave. But that was nearly a year ago, and now summer is dawning once again. Across the West, power grid managers and utilities are preparing for heat waves, and for the dry, windy conditions that have toppled electrical infrastructure and ignited wildfires. Temperatures are already spiking, which is...