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    California’s Next Electricity Headache Is a Looming Shortage

    (Bloomberg) — As if California doesn’t have enough problems with its electric service, now regulators warn the state may be short on power supplies by 2021 if utilities don’t start lining up new resources now.

    In the hopes of heading off a shortfall, the California Public Utilities Commission has ordered the state’s electricity providers to secure 3.3 additional gigawatts of reserve supplies. That’s enough to power roughly 2.5 million homes. Half of it must be in place by 2021 and the rest by August 2023.

    The move comes as California is already struggling to accommodate increasingly large amounts of solar power that regularly send electricity prices plunging below zero and force other generators offline so the region’s grid doesn’t overload. The state is also still reeling from a series of deliberate mass blackouts that utilities imposed last month to keep their power lines from sparking wildfires amid strong winds. And its largest power company, PG&E Corp., went bankrupt in January.

    Now as natural gas-fired power plants retire, officials are warning the state could run short on electricity on hot evenings, when solar production fades and commuters get home and crank up their air conditioners. “We have fewer resources that can be quickly turned on that can meet those peaks,” utilities commission member Liane Randolph said Thursday before the panel approved the order to beef up reserves.

    Read the rest of the story on Yahoo News/Bloomberg


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    William Hicks
    William Hicks
    4 years ago

    None of these egg-heads have observed how solar/windmills have failed to provide consistent electrical power at reasonable cost.

    Could it be that Californian voters have selected the wrong people to make these big decisions?

    C E Voigtsberger
    C E Voigtsberger
    4 years ago

    Well, duhhh! Whoa thunk? Close electric generating plants, increase electric usage through more electric appliances than ever plus electric cars that need charging stations annnddd Wow! An electric shortage.

    Maybe we can put all the people who complain about steam generating plants on squirrel cages to generate more green power.

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