Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
It does seem that way to me, too. As a short term stop-gap safety measure, I support it. But it indicates the endemic and inadequate condition of the infrastructure and does nothing to mitigate the problem in the future. What is PG&E going to do for minimizing the risk of fire in the first place ? Doing nothing relegates them to 3rd world status.
People who live in places that routinely experience bad weather (high winds, hurricantes, ice storms, tornadoes, etc.) know that occasional blackouts are the norm. Unless you spend an unreasonable amount of money, power lines are always vulnerable to such things.
How reliable is the power in southern California? How many outages per year does the average person see? Are these recent shutdowns unusually long or frequent, compared to other parts of the country?
Where I live in central Minnesota, we have 4-6 blackouts a year, probaby totalling 20-40 hours a year.
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