:^)
Add 1 part electric utilities that have been cowed from adding Tx and Gen capacity.
Add 16 parts radical BIG government bent on destroying coal (47% of US generation) via shuttering older plants; denying the Keystone pipeline; denying and delaying leases on federal lands; and an entire mindset that one can destroy existing energy infrastructure and replace it with untested and uneconomical resources.
Stir. And you have the Great Depression.
When CA went down in 2000, it created what those in the business call "INDUSTRIAL COLLAPSE" It looks very much like what the AP is trying to pass off as Climate Change.