California Governor Gavin Newsom Declares Statewide Emergency Amid Fires, Record Heat; Rolling Power Outages “Imminent,” Could Hit Millions
On a call with reporters, Steve Berberich, the CEO of the state’s Independent Service Operator, which runs the power grid indicated severe strain on the electrical system and strongly encouraged residents and businesses to conserve power. Rolling blackouts will occur if the California Independent System Operator moves to a Stage 3 emergency, he said.
The ISO declared a Stage 2 emergency at 2 p.m. That is the last step before it orders blackouts. Berberich said power outages could begin around 4 p.m. Just hours earlier, President Trump claimed that Democrats were to blame for California’s blackouts on Friday and Saturday. “On Saturday night,” said Berberich, “we were within an hour of being able to service the load without incident…We lost a 400 MW [power station] unit and, the wind had been every good, but ran out. If the wind hadn’t run out on us, we would have been ok.”Also on Tuesday, Berberich confirmed that the 130 degrees seen in Death Valley on Saturday is the highest reliably-recorded temperature even measured on Earth: “We have confirmed that the Death Valley temperature was the highest ever on earth.
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