Starting Monday, California will see its highest chance of rolling blackouts as the heat wave intensifies, grid officials said Sunday.
“This multiday event is going to get much more intense,” Elliot Mainzer, CEO of the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state grid, told reporters Sunday. California is facing “the highest likelihood of rotating outages we’ve seen so far” this summer beginning Monday, he said.
The grid operator has asked Californians to reduce their electricity use from 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday — a request known as a Flex Alert — and from 4 to 10 p.m. Monday. The late afternoon and evening are when air conditioning demand is extremely high, causing strain on the power grid. More Flex Alerts are a virtual certainty as the workweek begins.
California heat wave: Chance of rolling blackouts rises sharply starting Mondayhttps://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/California-heat-wave-Chance-of-rolling-blackouts-17419271.php