Posted on 09/06/2022 6:07:28 PM PDT by george76
Califiornians are apparently not heeding officials’ warnings that they should sacrifice their comfort for the sake of whatever business or social-engineering plan is the new thing.
CAISO shows that usage is up 13% today from yesterday at the same time of day and for a second consecutive day, the state’s grid operator issued a level-2 energy emergency alert.
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The emergency declaration allows officials to order some large power consumers to shut down in a last-ditch effort to avoid outages.
“We are heading into the worst part of this heat wave, and the risk for outages is real and it’s immediate,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a video posted Tuesday on Twitter. He urged residents and businesses to cut back on energy use during the late afternoon and early evening to help the state avoid outages.
And average day-ahead prices for power on Tuesday in the southern part of the state surged 44% to $300.55 a megawatt-hour, the highest in 18 months.
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With heat soaring things are only likely to get worse:
“We’re looking at a lot of records today,” said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster at the US Weather Prediction Center.
“They are having a lot of issues with power out there, and this isn’t going to help.”
California narrowly avoided rotating outages on Monday while power grid officials asked customers to conserve electricity amid a record-breaking heatwave.
The prospect of outages did not bother Californians. Many customers continued to use appliances, air conditioning, and at-home electric vehicle chargers despite conservation pleas from California Independent System Operator (CAISO).
Monday was the fifth straight day CAISO warned about a blistering heat wave that pushed its electric system to the brink. Even though no widespread blackouts were reported, electricity demand surged to one of the highest levels (52,646 megawatts), outlining how customers widely ignored conservation calls.
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A Reuters report showed soaring demand for electricity sent power prices in the state to the highest levels since August 2020.
Power prices at the Palo Verde hub in Arizona and SP-15 in Southern California rose to $850 and $505 per megawatt hour, respectively. That was their highest levels since hitting record highs of $1,311 in Palo Verde and $698 in SP-15 in August 2020 when the ISO last imposed rotating outages.
CAISO predicts demand could reach all-time high levels today
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And since Californians aren’t conserving electricity as demand steadily rises, this could mean CAISO would instruct utilities to start imposing rotating outages if duress on the grid continued — maybe then, after the fact, customers will get the message to conserve.
Elliot Mainzer, CEO of CASIO, said Monday: “We need a reduction in energy use that is two or three times greater than what we’ve seen so far as this historic heat wave continues to intensify.”
The California hypocrites won’t burn coal to generate electricity within California. Yet they will import all the coal generated electricity they can get from Nevada, Idaho,, and Wyoming. Without those coal generated imports there would be prolonged blackouts in LA, Sacramento and San Francisco and ensuing riots. Still if the heat wave continues, imports or no imports there will be blackouts and riots.
Must be all the electric cars owners plugging the cars in at once.
Approx 30% of Calif electricity is imported.
CA already buys out of state electricity at higher prices
cuz it helps their carbon output numbers
i wonder how EV sales are doing?
Yes. That was the impetus of the French Revolution.
When the people have no bread, the rulers end up with no head.
| Name | Location | Capacity (MWe) | Commission date | Decommission date | Years Operated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Unit 3 | San Diego County, California | 1,178 | 04/01/1984 | 06/07/2013 | 29 |
| San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2 | San Diego County, California | 1,172 | 08/08/1983 | 06/07/2013 | 30 |
| San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Unit 1 | San Diego County, California | 456 | 01/01/1968 | 11/30/1992 | 24 |
| Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station | Herald, California | 913 | 04/17/1975 | 10/23/2009 | 34 |
| TOTAL | 3,719 |
Anyone with a brain there will grab as much power as possible if they know blackouts are about to hit. Get your house down to 70F, get your Virtue Signalling Tesla fully charged, due your laundry, take your showers, etc.
Order all state buildings to 85F.
AZ here, too.
The womenfolk at the Chandler compound insist on setting the thermostat low enough to hang meat.
come winter
they can burn them for heat
i hear they burn forever
How are they going to support EV’s? Has it even occurred to them that they might have a problem?
Yup.
Clownifornia
Keeping the EV fully charged and the AC cooled down...
...the electrical equivalent of panic buying.
they should all head over to the executive mansion to keep cool
(Music sting)
Gavin Gruesome,
And his dank, dank, dank darkened cities!
Yeah. Build a bonfire, put some rails on to get them red hot, and then wrap them around nearby trees to cool down in a coil.
California even passed a law banning gasoline-powered lawn mowers, string trimmers, leaf blowers, generators, pressure washers, log splitters and chain saws.
Now, landscaping requires using a lot more electricity.
You can’t fix stupid.
This could wind up being the beginning of the end for this green bullshit.
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