Wayne Lusvardi, Author at California Globe

Mississippi Sierra Club: Green Power Did Not Cause California Blackouts

September 18, 2020 1:30 pmSeptember 18, 2020 1:46 pm

Expansion of solar power in nearby states, not California, resulted in a lack of available exportable power and rolling blackouts. Louis Miller, head of the Mississippi Sierra Club, concludes in “Let’s Not Black Out the Facts About California Blackouts, What...

Energy Fragmentation Resulting in Blackouts Says PG&E

September 9, 2020 10:33 amSeptember 10, 2020 7:55 am

California’s fragmented energy system has resulted in not enough local or imported power to rescue California from blackouts, not due to deregulation or privatization, energy trading, technical breakdown or error, or natural events, just as in 2001. On November 7,...

Bruce Babbitt’s California Grand Water Bargain is a Selfie to Seek Federal Appointment

August 31, 2020 6:46 amAugust 31, 2020 6:52 am

Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior under Pres. Bill Clinton, is calling for a “Grand Water Bargain” for California as he did in 1994 when he was formerly Secretary of the Interior under Pres. Bill Clinton. Babbitt was the...

How Long Can ‘Dirty Coal’ and Gas Bail Out L.A. From Heat Waves?

August 28, 2020 12:56 pmAugust 28, 2020 1:02 pm

During the current triple digit heat wave hitting California, the state electric grid’s Independent System Operator (ISO) stated it was conservation efforts that avoided more extensive rolling blackouts. But, data from the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) indicates that what...

CA Power Co-ops Respond to California Globe on Blackouts

August 24, 2020 12:48 pmAugust 24, 2020 3:10 pm

In response to the August 18 California Globe article, “Too Much Green Power Worsening Blackouts: Green Power-Buying Cooperatives are Worsening Problem,” Leora Broydo Vestel, Director of Communications for the California Community Choice Association, an organization of 21 green energy purchasing...

Too Much Green Power Worsening Blackouts

August 20, 2020 10:58 amAugust 20, 2020 11:02 am

The wave of power outages in California during the heat wave of 2020 are mostly in the PG&E power grid area where 21 local green energy-buying cooperatives (called Community Choice Aggregators) are buying green power and green jobs for their...

Shasta Dam Enlargement Might be in Play If California Expects Federal Help

August 17, 2020 12:04 pmAugust 17, 2020 12:06 pm

In 1933, California was financially broke and unable to issue municipal bonds to complete its ambitious water system plans. The state asked the Federal government to take over the project and the rest was history: The statewide Central Valley Project (CVP) was...