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Study finds 4 Southern California counties are at ‘extreme’ risk of power outages
KTLA ^ | 09/04/2025 | Will Conybeare

Posted on 09/04/2025 10:55:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A recently published study from researchers at Texas A&M University found that several parts of the U.S. are much more susceptible to power outages than others, with Southern California among the most vulnerable.

Researchers at the university’s Urban Resilience AI Lab used machine learning and artificial intelligence to help establish a nationwide Power Stability Vulnerability Index (PSVI) for every county in America. They collected data from around 179 million power outage records at 15-minute intervals across 3,022 counties in the contiguous U.S. over a nine-year period between 2014 and 2023 to create a framework based on three key dimensions: intensity, frequency and duration.

“Analysis revealed a consistent increase in power system vulnerability across the US counties over the past decade,” the authors of the study, published in Applied Energy, said. “318 counties across 45 states [were identified] as hotspots for high power system vulnerability.

Those counties were mainly concentrated on both coasts (California and Washington on the West Coast; Florida and the Northeast on the East Coast) as well as parts of the Great Lakes region (the Chicago and Detroit metropolitan areas) and the Texas Gulf Coast. The publicly available PSVI map indicates that many counties in those areas have at least a “major” risk of power outages, with some categorized as “severe” and others – including four SoCal counties – under an “extreme” risk.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: gavinnewsom; newsom; newsomfornia; texasaandm
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1 posted on 09/04/2025 10:55:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

But keep buying those EVs!


2 posted on 09/04/2025 11:07:36 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: BenLurkin

Today has been stressful day so far.
I’m going to have to go into dilligaf mode.


3 posted on 09/04/2025 11:08:18 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: BenLurkin

GOOD!

Let them eat RAT.


4 posted on 09/04/2025 11:09:33 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d like to see a correlation between protesters and the vulnerable counties. If there’s such a thing as karma, the correlation is 100%.


5 posted on 09/04/2025 11:12:57 AM PDT by econjack
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To: BenLurkin

Self-inflicted thanks to “climate change” and irrational fear due to “The China Syndrome”. That movie came out right at America’s industrial peak. Perfect timing on the part of stupid hippies.


6 posted on 09/04/2025 11:13:01 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: BenLurkin

If only they hadn’t decommissioned the San Onofre nuclear reactors early and had extended them instead and built new ones.BUT NOOOOO! We have Gaia worshipping morons (pushed by China)doing everything they can to destroy our energy independence and dependable power generation.


7 posted on 09/04/2025 11:21:29 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: BenLurkin

Bookmark


8 posted on 09/04/2025 11:31:31 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: Mastador1

They need few coal burning power plants, quickly!


9 posted on 09/04/2025 11:31:53 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties are all under the “extreme” power outage risk category

It's just where all the masses are packed into...lol

10 posted on 09/04/2025 11:38:31 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Fortunately, U-Hauls are gasoline powered.


11 posted on 09/04/2025 11:44:32 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: BenLurkin

No surprise here,,,,Newscum is capable of screwing anything up since he is so stupid.


12 posted on 09/04/2025 11:45:27 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: BenLurkin

MORE RENEWABLES! That’s answer. /s


13 posted on 09/04/2025 11:51:06 AM PDT by technically right
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To: BenLurkin

I hate when the headline info is buried in tge article. 4 paragraphs of blather before naming them.


14 posted on 09/04/2025 11:56:35 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Fledermaus

Sorry about that.


15 posted on 09/04/2025 12:02:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Not your fault. Author and editors problem.


16 posted on 09/04/2025 12:08:11 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Fledermaus

awwww...we sympathize with you.


17 posted on 09/04/2025 12:09:34 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: dragnet2

Actually I used to live in SBD county, and the population is nothing compared to the rest. But what they do is cut the rural areas to steal power for the other three populated counties... It is a scam that has been going on for years now. During the summer when it is hot you can almost look at the thermometer and the clock and predict the exact minute it will go off in the rural areas. And it happens two or three times a week for most of the day when the A/C load in the city is high.


18 posted on 09/04/2025 12:13:23 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

What state or area are you in?


19 posted on 09/04/2025 12:17:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t bother telling Newscum, he’s out of the state on vacation again.


20 posted on 09/04/2025 12:23:25 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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