Posted on 10/10/2019 11:40:20 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
This is an urgent message from the County of Santa Clara Office of Emergency Management. The time is 11:27 p.m. (PST, Wednesday October 8, 2019). Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has begun the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS), for areas of Santa Clara County. Your location could be affected and lose power for up to seven days
PG&E is providing a Customer Resource Center that will have charging stations for phones and plug-in medical devices, drinking water, air conditioning, and other amenities. This will be offered at the Avaya Stadium, at 1123 Coleman Avenue, San Jose 95110 from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day for the duration of the event. The City of San Jose will also have three resource centers open. Please check their website for more information.
(Excerpt) Read more at sccgov.org ...
BTW - this headline was in the SF Chronicle 2 days ago. “PG&E releases list of California cities, counties on power shut-off watch: Here’s what you need to know” The same date that the above memo posted was released. So, people didn’t know a week ago that they’d be affected.
A lot of the fix would be to clear cut along the utility easements and tell enviro nuts to suck it.
“Could Trump win California?”
I think this power outage could actually do it.
If this goes on for several days the communists running the California Democratic Party will have to go into the Witness Protection program, because losing to Trump will be the least of their worries.
Same issue as full time oxygen needs. Just different equipment. With a cpap's smaller electricity requirement need, even just a automotive or marine battery kept charged by a 50watt solar panel and a power inverter for the cpap would be minimal cost. When your life depends on a piece of equipment working you have to plan for failures. My sister in law died in her sleep not because her cpap failed, but she refused to use it and her oxygen levels fell to a point finally one night that it killed her.
Here in Alabama, they have a five year or ten year line inspection. Last year they were working in our area. We had an 80’ yellow pine on the property (we have several), and it died after a lightning strike. I drove up to the foreman and told him it was about ready to come down and take out the power at the end of the street, and left. I came back later, and it was cut down to the base of the trunk. On one hand, the cheapest tree removal service I could find started at $600 plus hauling, so it was a money saver. On the other hand, the foreman told me they’d cut it up into logs to make it easier to haul. What I found was 75 linear feet of solid tree in my yard, waiting for the chain saw. LOL
D = Distribution. Distribution or sub-distribution lines are lower in voltage, and are the final stage in the delivery of electricity to end users. They are part of a network that typically includes medium-voltage power lines, substations, pole-mounted transformers, low-voltage distribution wiring and meters. This is what you see in your neighborhoods (if you live in an older area with above ground lines).
Yes, plenty of power. The electricity is free at the support facilities...this time. Next time, who knows? Because a government that can dispense it, can withhold it. And that, my friends, is power.
“As I said, power generation and T&D.”
LOL! Power generation was not a natural monopoly! The monopolies were created in 1935 as part of the New Deal.
That’s a great thought! Let’s hope his team just HAMMERS on this non-stop. He can point to how Democrat run cities are all shitholes and now the single-party state of California has become an entire shithole.
Interesting! It is the REGULATED T&D that is costing us while ‘deregulated’ power generation costs are decreasing!
I’ve checked our address about ten times the past 24 hours, but their server NEVER responds! So they can’t keep their transmission system running and they also built under-sized servers that can’t keep up with demand. Figures.
From the excerpt:
"PG&E is providing a Customer Resource Center that will have charging stations for phones and plug-in medical devices, drinking water, air conditioning, and other amenities. This will be offered at the Avaya Stadium."
So, the short answer seems to be, "Move to Avaya Stadium."
Its a 30 year old 5000 watt Generac with a 10 HP Briggs “IC” (industrial) engine. We bought it at Costco. It is hooked into the service panel with several different safety devices. It will run everything in the house but the oven, and we have to be careful not to run two high amperage devices that are both on the same side of a 120v branch. So we do not use the toaster and the microwave at the same time unless we plug the toaster into a dining room outlet.
A few years ago I bought a Honda clone powered generator that was quieter with a higher HP and wattage rating, in case this one finally died, but it just keeps going and going. I shut it down every 24 hours and check the oil, and then start it back up. It goes througb very little oil. I try to change it once every season. I have an aftermarket wattmeter and hour meter on it. We typically put a couple hundred hours on it every year.
The fix is simply to clear overgrowth alongside the lines - like utilities do all over the world — but California environmental laws won’t let them do that.
“The fix for the problem is replacing all the old lines & equipment which will take years & years”
Not the problem nor the fix.
Crazy.
“What ever happened to giving people a few days notice?”
There has been talk about this since the weather forecast of dry winds came out.
Give California back to Mexico.
That will remove enough Democrats to make the rest of the country Republican.
I hear that argument all the time, but I find little actual evidence for that. Transmission companies have legal rights of way and can trim trees in those areas. Keeping the transmission corridor trimmed is small potatoes compared to wide clear-cutting of timber resources. Utilities won't trim trees back any more than they have to to maintain safe and reliable power transmission.
The problem with environmentalists seems to be in the "urban forest" with distribution lines. See "Trees and Power Lines: Minimizing Conflicts between Electric Power Infrastructure and the Urban Forest":
Proposed Solutions
1. Revision of Municipal Tree Ordinances
In most of California, there is no law stopping a private property owner from planting a tree of any type directly under power lines, and almost no law that allows a city or utility to remove newly planted, potentially problematic trees. Revising municipal tree ordinances to define tall-growing trees planted under powerlines as ‘nuisance trees’ would allow cities and utilities to replace problem trees with species more appropriate for the location, and possibly shift the cost of replacement to the person who caused the problem.
2. Cooperation Between Utilities and Local Governments
Utilities and local governments collaborate only minimally on vegetation management. Cities that have developed programs to coordinate with utilities have had great success and can be used as a model.
3. Tree and Utility Inventories
Inventories of trees and utility infrastructure in urban areas could help assess the scope of the problem and allow for targeting of replanting efforts. Additionally, a more precise quantification of the ecosystem service values of urban forests would help local governments and utilities with cost- benefit analysis for decisions such as when and where to move power lines underground.
4. Tree Replacement or Preemptive Planting by Utilities and Government
Replacement of potentially problematic trees with more appropriate species pays for itself. A utility can recover tree replacement costs in as little as five years and then produce more than $18,000 in pruning savings per thousand trees per year plus savings from fewer power outages and repairs.
5. Planning Power Line Placement Around the Urban Forest
Cities and utilities planning out the location of new transmission lines should take into account the shape of the urban forest, especially when deciding where to place underground power lines.
Yep. It's everyone's chance to really "live" the Green New Deal.
(Except for the elites in government and big money donors to the corrupt democrat party. Living without power is only for the little people. Our betters will have all the electricity they need.)
Wonder where the money went to manage the tree's next to the power lines?
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