Trump claims Democrats are behind California's rolling blackouts
President Donald Trump on Tuesday blamed Democratic officials in California for triggering a spate of blackouts that plunged parts of the state into darkness, a move solely in the hands of apolitical operators of the electric grid.
Hundreds of thousands of California residents were affected over the weekend by a series of rolling blackouts, and Pacific Gas and Electric, the utility for most of Northern California, said to expect more on Tuesday evening. The region has suffered a heat wave in recent days, creating a spike in power needs as residents crank up their air-conditioning and tax the system.
PG&E and other utilities have orchestrated preemptive power shut-offs in recent years to help reduce the risk of its wires and other infrastructure sparking wildfires, including last fall. But California has not seen widespread outages due to a lack of electricity supply since 2001, when Enron and other energy traders manipulated the state’s electricity market.
The state has retired 10,000 megawatts of nuclear and natural gas power plants since 2013 on its way to a low-carbon electric grid, according to the California Energy Commission. It has replaced that with 13,000 megawatts of solar and wind, which cannot produce round-the-clock electricity. Roughly a third of California’s power comes from its neighbors, according to the Energy Information Administration.
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