California’s Independent System Operator is calling on residents across the state to reduce electricity use between 4 and 9 p.m. again Tuesday. It’s the seventh straight day of"
Why hasn't California's power grid been able to meet demand during this heat wave without Flex Alerts?I think Flex Alerts and conservation have always been part of West-wide heat events, and I think that's really the perspective here. This isn't your local utility just having hot weather, it's every utility pretty much west of the Rocky Mountains, and so we all work together to share that energy across even state lines to keep everybody's grid connected.
Why does our electrical supply face such intense strain during a heat wave — don't we have other energy sources available?There's energy sources available to meet that demand, but this is at that record extreme level. Really, almost all the states are facing — at that same time — that same extreme level.