Posted on 08/17/2020 3:54:20 PM PDT by Mariner
In response to a weekend of power outages caused by a heat wave of triple-digit temperatures, and ahead of anticipated blackouts through Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a stark statement during a Monday press conference in response to the crisis: this can’t happen again.
Newsom said as governor, he was “ultimately accountable” for the energy failure that left some households without power on Friday and Saturday amid temperatures cruising past 100, and that he’d now “take responsibility to immediately address this issue and move forward to simply make sure this never happens again in the state of California.”
But he said he wasn’t alerted until Friday that California was at risk of rolling blackouts.
“Let me make this crystal clear,” Newsom said. “We failed to predict and plan these shortages, and that’s simply unacceptable.”
Californians up and down the state faced scorching heat this past weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
More nuclear power!
Sacramento is Babylon.
How about you let us make some more reservoirs you twit. Then we can have water and power
A low-powered Tesla Model 3 takes 50 KW to charge.
Enough to power my AC over the hottest 5 hours of the day.
Which is fine at noon. PLENTY of solar power available.
But not many are charging at noon. They start at 5pm.
There gonna be a run on portable generations like crazy, lol, its power outage season! Better get yours now, crank em up!
The californication state politicians have been so corrupt for so long ( including anything they can make large sums of money From like utility “regulation” In California especially) That this Newsome public posturing now is totally worthless.
I did not know that.
That is a shame.
What a waste. In so many ways
Since political pawn students are still using distance learning because of “Orange Man Bad” lockdown, and taking solar power into consideration, I question if total number home of home air conditioners actually takes more power to operate than total number of high school and college air conditioners.
Insights welcome.
Send “Orange Man Bad” federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a “third term” in office imo.
He's gonna' have everyone install more electrical outlets in their home to provide more power. After all, isn't that where electricity comes from?? /s
Not only can it Happen again, it Will, Guaranteed! and it will only get worse.
If Newsom could turn excuses into electricity he’d have this problem licked in no time.
Moreover, when you tell the “lie” that there is no power, the Commies will execute you.
These idiots will try state takeovers of the electric utilities. Then no one will have any power.
You mean more Mr. Chop Chops and mega Air Fryers! The Gaia worshipers demand that Raptors, Avians and Polinators be sacrificed to Gaia in order to save the planet.
I'm sure Noisome, peloonie, Feinswine and all the other democrats are befuddled that these rolling blackouts are happening, after all they have shut down nuclear, coal and gas generating plants across California so how can there not be enough electricity?
Ah the Democrats have finally ran the rail road over the cliff and are acting surprised that 40 years of micro-managing the utility without allowing them to build new power plants have resulted in not enough power for the state.
Newsome want to help - kick every environmentalist activist out of Sacramento (and quit taking their money).
Next allow the utilities to manage their business
Last - forget about solar and wind power. It will never be enough. Return to good old oil or gas fired power plants and put them where ever needed
Problem solved (not this year but maybe by next summer)
Newsom says nothing about the complete responsibility he and other Democrats hold...”””
Are any Calif Republicans beating the Democrats over the head with this?
Newsom is a joke.
California is governed by incompetent criminals, and inhabited by imbeciles.
“Just wave a wand, sprinkle some fairy dust, tap your heels three times! All better now.”
You’re in Venezuela!
But what about all the money Cali was saving with “green energy”?
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