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As some know, the change in the Earth's climate is currently causing a heat wave across N.America. Depending on the status of your local utility (capacity, equipment, users, etc.) this could be a problem when trying to get a charge either overnight or at public EVSE. Utility pge.com has a large portion of California's Electricity-supplying market. A report on a SF-CA local TV channel: http://www.ktvu.com/clip/11595263/concord-pge-prepares-for-more-heat-related-power-outages mentions it is not a power-generation capacity issue, like 10 years ago when deregulation allowed power plants to purposely manipulate the grid's capacity for profit: http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2006/3331elec_blackouts.html Power Outages Hit U.S. Grid; Utility Deregulation to Blame August 4, 2006 One-minute into the (ktvu) video shows a chart that details that it isn't the power generating capacity (there is plenty of that), the problem is the old utility equipment is failing with these higher than normal temperature conditions (they did not plan for global-climatic changes). See, https://www.fac ebook.com/SFGate/posts/10155684792450594 Power went down in the majority of the outages due to temperature-related equipment failures BTW, pge.com has a history of taking as much profit as possible, and spending as little a possible on its infrstructure or the maintenace thereof (though their TV ads give lip-service that they care). *So what does this mean to the plugin EV driver needing a charge, and what can be done about outages? Getting pge.com to change is not my primary focus as it would be a monumental effort. Besides traffic snarls from lights not working, now the driver will have to contend with no power to get a charge. Drivers can keep informed where power outages are located from the news, and their EVSE finder apps up-to-date & handy (i.e. plugshare.com ). If a driver needs to use public EVSE during the daytime (when the heat will make the most demand on the aged utility equipment), the driver should have different public EVSE routes in mind to navigate around the outages. Also, if you find that you won't be getting an overnight charge because your residence is part of an outage, making a trip to a public EVSE should be planned (either before you crash for the night, or for early in the morning hours before your work commute). These heat wave outages will have the same affect as any other acts or God (earthquakes, etc.). The driver should have a plan-of attack when these occur. For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/OT-Power-outages-Heat-related-old-equipment-failures-not-capacity-tp4676207.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
