Posted on 04/06/2016 9:57:40 AM PDT by PROCON
State officials warn that Southern California could face as many as 14 days of scheduled blackouts this summer because of depleted reserves of natural gas caused by the massive leak in Aliso Canyon.
The canyon in the hills above Porter Ranch is a crucial gas storage facility, supplying 17 power plants in the Los Angeles Basin. But the four-month leak that began in October left the facility at one-fifth of its capacity and new injections of gas have been prohibited until all of its wells have passed comprehensive tests.
Officials estimate the storage facility won’t be back on line for months, leaving local power plants without a key source of natural gas.
“These pipelines also cannot transport gas fast enough to meet the hour-by-hour or changing demands of power plants during the summer when electricity demand peaks,” said Mark Rothleder, vice president of the California Independent System Operator, one of four agencies that warned of the blackouts in a draft report released Tuesday.
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BTW, isn't the word blackout racist?
Just sayin'.
And how can you have “blackouts” during daylight?
That’s OK. Kim Jong Un has warned his population to be ready for famine.
SOCAL warns its people to be ready for blackouts.
SSDD. Same reason, too.
Too bad they can’t use coal. LOL!!!
To keep consumer prices for energy ridiculously LOW, they wouldn’t expand or upgrade the infrasctucture...etc.
people with any sense will be getting their diesel or propane powered back-up generators now.
ping
So, as usual, these blackouts will disproportionately affect the poor the most.
Democrats love the poor.
Actually in CA, it is fairly common.
They are called “rolling blackouts”
The secret CA doesn’t want the rest of the country to know is CA doesn’t have the capacity to power itself.
The only way to manage it is to power down areas of high demand.
About once every couple of months, the power goes dead during the daytime in random locations.
There are absolutely no low energy prices of any kind in California.
Crazy. And I guess the EPA won’t let CA build new power plants?
Well...they all voted for 3rd world ideas...now they’re living their dreams!
California has some of the highest consumer prices for energy in the country.
Exactly.
This is the REAL reason for the alternative energy plan.
To bail out CA before things go really bad.
That's why they've used "The War On Poverty" to make so many of them and are importing more all the time.
California will soon show you how.
Ah yes, the undocumented democratic voter, just in time for November.
Sorry to sound like a broken record, but “Atlas Shrugged is now nonfiction.”
CARB says that isn’t allowed. Diesel is virtually outlawed in california, and that policy has infiltrated the EPA. So thanks california for driving up everybody’s energy prices.
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