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.”
Can’t they just turn the solar panels toward the fires.
I propose we start turning the power off for a 5 mile radius of the personal residence of every Public Employee in the State.
Well, guess you ( .gov econazis) shouldn’t have pissed away all our hydro to the ocean as fast as you could.
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Hey dumbf**ks…build some power plants.
My condolences but I bet SRP (or APS) loves you!
LOL, actually it’s not that bad. The trick is not to have too big a variance between inside and outside. Half the time I don’t bother to turn on the AC in the van.
Nothing wrong with that.
Over 110 here yesterday and I cool this place with a 16,000 watt window air conditioner at around 75 to 80.
2 inches of wood on the walls, with house wrap and good insulation.
WHAT? All the California communards are only in it for themselves? How very selfish of them? What happened to the "We are all in this together" ethic and "all for one and one for all"?
We should all heed these wonderful democrat communist aphorisms and sayings. The RevComDems will save us!
I got enough solar so that in a pinch I can cool a small room down using a window air unit... and enough lithium batteries to carry it through the night if need be.
Same for winter, I should be able to use an electric blanket.
It would be a meager and miserable existence...I would have my Ham gear to amuse myself with. Imagine listening to all the distress calls :-/
As long as the sun shines, and I should have reserves for 3 days if the sun don’t shine.
But what else ya gonna do...
I need to get a small woodstove.
I have 40 acres of saplings and a rechargeable chainsaw.. not exactly Paul Bunyan but I think I could keep warm.
I hope all this stuff just ends up in boxes, like the emergency radios and such my Mom got for the Y2K panic.
California is ten years late in building nuclear, electrical power generating plants.
Set the water heater to come on at 4:00
SRP.
Last year I added extra attic insulation and replaced the two A/Cs. It helped.
People are SICK TO DEATH of being told what to do AND they know that EVERY STINKING one of the RULING CLASS are sitting home using whatever appliances they want!! The people KNOW the ruling class are the CAUSE of the problems and they are not willing anymore to change their lifestyles like they did for Covid!!
Ain’t Green Grand?
I wish!
Wow is Judgement Day coming to California 116 degrees in Sacramento and 115 degrees in Stockton today both all-time records?
What you say will be proven true IF and only IF voters wake up, see the error of their ways, and change their voting patterns. Sadly, I think we are too far gone for that.
I’d get a real saw...
CA is already exporting captive “Green” energy projects to neighboring states.
Too ugly or environmentally caustic for their own lands but just fine to saddle other states with.
I am tired of their eyesores.
And by captive I mean that ALL power generated goes to CA.
And CA still buys NV (And other states) power when they run short.
This a shell-game they play to remain in compliance with their “Green” mandates.
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