These particular blackouts aren’t because of ack of power supply/electricity, they’re because of the danger of forest fire igniting or being ignited by PG&E’s power lines.
So it’s a problem created by the lack of tree thinning and forest management that has made California’s forests a tinder box
You can’t cut all of it down.
The major transmission routes are pretty clear now. But there are spurs and service drops that will never be clear.
That is true, but California has been short 4,000 to 5,000 MW in this near wave. The shortage is a result of permanently shutting down (early retirement) of both nuclear plants and natural gas power plants.
And you can avoid setting the forests on fire by doing proper tree trimming and forest management.
The entire fuster cluck is caused by Dems.
* forcing utilities to focus on expensive “green” energy
* cutting tree trimming budgets to support “green”
* stopping the importation of out of state coal power
* shutting down nuke and NG plants long before the end of their economic lives
* not building new, reliable conventional power plants
* deregulation of the power generation business
* utility companies now run by lawyers, no longer by engineers