Californians coped with a 2nd day of rolling power outages Saturday as heat-related electricity demand nearly outstripped supply, utilities said.
In Northern California, Pacific Gas and Electric had cut power to roughly 250,000 customers,The utility said in a statement Saturday that it might be required to conduct rotating power outages Saturday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the behest of the ISO.
PG&E cited not only increased demand as a result of a heat wave but thunderstorm-related cloud cover in Southern California that impacted its solar operations. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said on Friday that it would not be participating in rolling outages. "We own our own power plants and transmission lines and had enough supply to meet demand," the taxpayer-run utilityThe state's other large utility, San Diego Gas & Electric, said it cut power to thousands of customers at the request of the ISO, but service was restored to affected customers within a half hour.
By evening, the 47,770-megawatt California grid was about 5,000 megawatts from maxing out, according to the ISO'sDemand was boosted by residential usage in the second day of what forecasters have said could be aThe state was subjected to widespread rolling outages
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