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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...

Marybel Batjer, President of California Pubic Utilities Commission, CPUC.

CA Senators Go Easy on Bureaucrats After Utility Chiefs Grilled Over Power Shut Downs

November 20, 2019 2:03 amNovember 21, 2019 5:56 am

In Part l of Utility Chiefs Grilled by California Senators Over Power Shut Downs, the CEOs and COOs of the California’s largest utilities testified Monday in a hearing held by the California Senate Energy and Utilities Committee over the shutting...

Utility Chiefs Grilled by California Senators Over Power Shut Downs

November 19, 2019 6:45 amNovember 20, 2019 6:07 am

The CEO’s and COO’s of the California’s largest utilities came together Monday in a hearing by the California Senate Energy and Utilities Committee over the shutting off of power for millions of people in an attempt to prevent wildfires during...

Authorized Power Outages Leave Californians Sweltering and In the Dark

June 10, 2019 2:11 amJune 10, 2019 6:13 pm

Over the weekend, PG&E turned off power in Napa, during a heat wave, only restoring power later in the day. More power outages came at 9 p.m. to customers in Butte County, Yuba County, and Sierra Foothills. The Associated Press...

California’s Renewables Mandate Sets an Impossible Example for the World

February 14, 2019 2:03 amFebruary 14, 2019 12:26 pm

“We will never waver on achieving the nation’s most ambitious clean energy goals.” – Excerpt from Gavin Newsom’s State of the State Address, January 12, 2019 California has long been proclaiming itself the leader in fighting “climate change,” and incoming...