[Navy Patriot]

Here in California, the EPA has prevented upgrading and expanding to redundancy the high voltage grid, and been particularly hard on nuclear generation.

The PG&E and So Cal Edison have collaborated with the Cal PUC to push a mandatory high percentage of (nonexistent) green energy, while giving excessive bonuses to PG&E upper management.

They fired all the tree trimmers for the money and didn't outsource for two years, so we had storm outages like crazy. Then they cut the electricians that worked with the trimmers, so the trimmers can't work around live high voltage, and may not secure the power themselves.

We have both overhead and buried power. In CA, all power is on easements and citizens cannot interfere with tree maintenance because of that, so PG&E under the PUC can trim all they want, if they will pay for it.

[cripplecreek]

The PG&E and So Cal Edison have collaborated with the Cal PUC to push a mandatory high percentage of (nonexistent) green energy, while giving excessive bonuses to PG&E upper management.

Yep that crap is going on everywhere. Decrease supply, pick up tax credits and breaks for going green while charging more.