{"id":21168,"date":"2016-06-21T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21168"},"modified":"2016-06-21T19:51:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:51:30","slug":"blackout-california-in-power-grid-emergency-all-customers-should-expect-14-days-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21168","title":{"rendered":"Blackout: California In Power Grid Emergency: \u201cAll Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blackout: California In Power Grid Emergency: \u201cAll Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The entire Los Angeles metropolitan area and most of Southern California can expect blackouts this summer.<\/p>\n

The power grid is under direct threat as a result of the unprecedented, but little reported, massive natural gas leaks at Alisco Canyon that was ongoing for\u00a0 four months as an intense summer heat wave sets in.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Reuters<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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California will have its first test of plans to keep the lights on this summer\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

With record-setting heat and air conditioning demand expected in Southern California, the state\u2019s power grid operator issued a so-called \u201cflex alert,\u201d urging consumers to conserve energy to help prevent rotating power outages \u2013 which could occur regardless.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Electricity demand is expected to rise during the unseasonable heatwave on Monday and Tuesday, with forecast system-wide use expected to top 45,000 megawatts, said the California Independent System Operator (ISO), which manages electricity flow through the state. That compares with a peak demand of 47,358 MW last year and the all-time high of 50,270 MW set in July 2006.<\/p>\n

That could put stress on the power grid, particularly with the shut-in of Aliso Canyon, following a massive leak at the underground storage facility in October [Editor\u2019s Note: which was not stopped fully\u00a0until mid-February 2016<\/a>].<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The large-scale natural gas disaster \u2013 which curiously escaped media frenzy and widespread environmental concern \u2013 has resulted in the shutdown of key storage facilities that supply most of the power for the southern portion of the state.<\/p>\n

As summer demand for electricity to cool homes and businesses kicks into high gear, power plants are planning to shut down, with supply shortages triggering controlled blackouts and brownouts.<\/p>\n

Reports say that \u201call customers\u201d should expect to be without power a total 14 days \u2013 2 weeks time \u2013 out of this summer. Some 21 million Californians stand to be directly affected:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Blackout: California In Power Grid Emergency: \u201cAll Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power\u201d The entire Los Angeles metropolitan area and most of Southern California can expect blackouts this summer. The power grid is under direct threat as a result of the unprecedented, but little reported, massive natural gas leaks at Alisco Canyon that was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,14069,101,1103,1574],"class_list":["post-21168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-blackouts","tag-brown-outs","tag-california","tag-electricity","tag-power-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21171,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168\/revisions\/21171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}