https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/us/california-wildfires-costs.html California, Wary of More Wildfires ... generators are necessary because the power company has announced that this year it will turn off the power when fire risk is high ... "we are safer today than we were yesterday,” ...
... Made worse by climate change, wildfires are adding a mounting financial burden in California ... firefighters in the Northwest have shifted their attention to Alaska, where more than 900,000 acres have burned ... “All this stuff burned, but it’s ready to burn again,” ... ... worried residents are taking their own steps, buying generators and batteries so they can disconnect from the grid. The California Solar and Storage Association says it has seen a spike in interest in home battery systems. “Those people who do have solar are now coming back for battery backup,” ... “We’re seeing more and more of that over the last three or four years now, because of the threat of wildfires, the threat of an earthquake.” ... ... she and her husband decided last fall that they needed their own energy storage system ... If she and her family need to get out because of a fire, she said, she wants to be able to keep her Nissan Leaf electric car charged ... “Me getting a battery is more about emergency preparedness,” ... For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
