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The 2019 California power shutoffs, known as public safety power shutoff (PSPS) events, were massive preemptive power shutoffs that occurred in approximately 30 counties in Northern California and several areas in Southern California from October 9 to November 1, 2019, and on November 20, 2019, by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas ...
The 2000–2001 California electricity crisis, also known as the Western U.S. energy crisis of 2000 and 2001, was a situation in which the U.S. state of California had a shortage of electricity supply caused by market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices. [5] The state suffered from multiple large-scale blackouts, one of the state ...
WECC strives for transparency and open participation in all of its meetings and processes. WECC has a long history of assuring reliability in the West that began when it was originally formed in 1967 by 40 power systems, then known as the Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC). Thirty-five years later in 2002, the WSCC became WECC when ...
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) declared a Stage 3 Energy Emergency for Tuesday night, meaning the state’s energy demand is expected to outpace its supply. CAISO warned that ...
The Northern California group operates a handful of power plants and coordinates supplies for its member cities, as well as the Port of Oakland the Bay Area Rapid Transit district.
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January 30 - United States - A major ice storm hit Kansas City, Missouri, knocking trees into power lines and blowing up transformers throughout the city. The outage affected more than 270,000 people. [74] March 12 - Indonesia - A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung.
Northern California regions most affected by the outages have been San Francisco's South Bay, where more than 40,400 people were affected; the Central Coast, where over 23,000 were without power ...