Clean-energy advocates hope a bill awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature will jump-start projects that shut down gas pipelines and help homes and businesses go electric.
I feel like there are a lot of systemic problems with the electrical grid in California that need to be addressed before projects like this happen.
As far as I can tell there has never been any sort of reckoning among management at California utilities for the decades of underinvestment and mismanagement.
PG&E literally went bankrupt because they didn’t inspect a powerline, and the cast-iron hooks holding it up swung slowly back and forth over a century until they wore through, dropping a live powerline to the ground, sparking a fire, and causing towns to burn down.
Yeah so unless there was a complete overhaul that involved firing multiple layers of management maybe putting more load on the grid isn’t the best idea.
I feel like there are a lot of systemic problems with the electrical grid in California that need to be addressed before projects like this happen.
As far as I can tell there has never been any sort of reckoning among management at California utilities for the decades of underinvestment and mismanagement.
PG&E literally went bankrupt because they didn’t inspect a powerline, and the cast-iron hooks holding it up swung slowly back and forth over a century until they wore through, dropping a live powerline to the ground, sparking a fire, and causing towns to burn down.
Yeah so unless there was a complete overhaul that involved firing multiple layers of management maybe putting more load on the grid isn’t the best idea.
The bankruptcy took out a big chunk of their executive team, and induced a huge investment in grid upgrades. So completely reasonable actually.