Posted on 01/08/2025 3:26:48 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The City of La Cañada Flintridge has issued an open letter urging Southern California Edison (SCE) to address the persistent and increasingly disruptive power outages plaguing the community. Having burdened residents and businesses for decades, these outages are especially concentrated in certain areas within La Cañada Flintridge, with one portion of the City experiencing an average of one outage every seven days during the first 11 months of 2024. This frequency of outages is simply unacceptable by any reasonable standard.
Over many years, the City has prompted SCE to improve its electrical infrastructure. This has included filing a formal complaint against SCE with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the state agency that regulates public utilities. Despite these efforts, the frequency and severity of outages remain unacceptable.
“Our community deserves dependable power,” said Mayor Davitt. “The current state of SCE’s service jeopardizes public safety and the well-being of our residents. The City Council is committed to pursuing every avenue to ensure SCE provides the reliable service our community needs and deserves.”
(Excerpt) Read more at publicceo.com ...
Adam Schiff’s district when he was House member. 😷😖
Oh dear. I lived next door in La Crescenta from 1975 to 1989. Good neighborhoods.
The Woke Greenies will not allow traditional (effective) fire mitigation management nor secure sufficient accessibile water reservoirs.
Yes both lovely, gorgeous hillside towns. Secluded suburbs, but within earshot distance of Downtown LA and views of it to boot. And quite expensive housing nowadays!
La Crescenta is seen as a high altitude off-shoot of neighboring Glendale, and continues to have the more rugged, rural feel you may have been familiar with! While La Canada Flintridge continues on its luxury-minded trajectory. Upscale, without the flash, fame, and glamour of Beverly Hills or even the Palisades. But it still boasts among the most expensive housing in LA County and the nation.
According to realtor.com - median listing home price in LCF as of Nov 2024 was $3.4 Million.
Not exactly the price you’d want to be paying for weekly power outages.
Unless we stop shutting down coal plants and other forms of reliable energy production, then we are going to be in a lot of trouble as a nation within the near future. No one is really talking about this, but as an insider, I can tell you that it is one of the greatest threats to America we face. Reliability is everything, and too many foolish people either don’t realize it or don’t care.
If I were an officer, board member or executive of a utlity company in California I would quit/resign.
California state “green” policies have added billions to electric power supply costs, drainng monies that would have better gone to infrastucture while raising electric bills for everyone. The suppliers are forced by law to buy more expensive power from “renewable sources, forgoing cheaper wholesale rates off the grid, as well as, in the same way, forced to buy any “excess” commercial or residential solar power, whether they need it or not, and pay retail for it. Again, if they actually need extra power they could buy it cheaper wholesale off the interstate grid systems.
My friend’s son has been forced to evacuate his home in La Canada. No idea if it is still standing.
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