What's up with PG&E?

[tanithryudo]

Third power outage in as many months.

My new UPS is installed, and successfully kept the internet up when everything went black. It's not during work hours now though, so not as much of a lifesaver. But if this pattern holds...

Anyway, what's up with the recent spate of outages? I remember seeing news that China's been having outages because of resource shortages and factories rushing last minute or something... but I didn't think the US (and CA) would be in that kinda boat.

If it's a hardware issue, you'd think they'd have started looking into things more proactively after the 2nd outage in this area.

Can't be an environmental issue certainly. There was not heavy wind or rain today. Hum.

Comments

[cashew]

Might be they're just suffering from a grid overload? Isn't California trying to shift to fully renewables right now?

[tanithryudo]

I have no idea... but if it's this bad in the fall/winter, I am not looking forward to next summer.

[cashew]

Well, at least you've got a backup battery, so the internet will live.

SciShow answered your question

[cashew]

So clearly your question was heard by Science Tube. :p

Re: SciShow answered your question

[tanithryudo]

Haha, didn't hear anything I didn't already suspect there. I suspect it was animals for the most recent incidents as it doesn't fit the weather condition for other suspects.

Re: SciShow answered your question

[cashew]

Yup, blame the squirrels. XD California squirrels are batshit crazy.