• @Bahalex
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    161 year ago

    PG&E, the power and gas company for much of California does this. As a for profit company, they outsourced maintenance of their infrastructure to save money. The infrastructure was old, not well maintained or managed and it sparked several large fires over the years. They’ve paid lots of money in restitutions because of this. Now they shut off the power so they can’t be blamed for starting giant fires again…

    • @DoomBot5
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      11 year ago

      Yeah, but that’s one company after a major fuck up.

      • @Bahalex
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        11 year ago

        One company who is currently practicing power shutoffs, which was the question.

        Also, they made this choice after several big fires started from their infrastructure- while they were on some sort of corporate probation for exploding a neighborhood because of… faulty and under maintaining infrastructure. Not exactly a one off.

        • @DoomBot5
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          11 year ago

          No, the question was “is this something normally done?” clearly the answer is no, since only 1 company is doing it.