California escaped a second round of rolling blackouts on Saturday, amid the start of a brawling heat wave expected to run into Labor Day weekend. But about 15,0000 San Diego gas and electric customers went to bed without electricity for reasons they were still trying to determine the utility.
The California Independent System, which oversees the grid for about 80 percent of the state, lifted the rator operator. A Phase 2 Crisis It was issued at 6:30 p.m. A Phase 2 Emergency, just one step below Stage 3 Emergency, in which a rotating outage is initiated to ensure that the demand for electricity does not exceed the available supply.
“There’s no outage tonight,” The The grid operator said on its Twitter page Immediately after 9 p.m. “Thank you for your part!”
In the evening, CAISO officials said things were looking shaky then About 1,600 MW Generation Lost due to a combination of hot weather, demand load and fires spreading in the Golden State. The grid operator called on domestic utility customers to reduce their energy use to prevent blackouts from spreading across the state in mid-August amid a similar heat wave.
But not related to CAISO issues, some 15,088 SDG and E customers across the country experienced outages in places dotting the county.
A spokesman for SDG and ENA said about 1,000 customers had lost power in East County as a rapid-running brush fire affected utility appliances. Dubbed the valley fire, the fire engulfed 1,500 acres by early evening, threatening homes and forcing evacuation into the Japatul Valley and Lonson Valley.
But many more customers moved their lights out into areas not affected by the valley fire. Neighborhoods such as City Heights and Golden Hill reported outages, as did hinterlands in the hinterland, such as El Cajon and La Mesa, which were sweating at three-digit temperatures.
Previous nightfall fall l, SDG and E officials were still assessing why this caused the shutdown, saying “some weather is relevant.”
According to the utility’s outage map, some areas lost power at 2 pm and spread to other areas for four hours after the outage.
By 9 p.m., the outage map recorded 27 circuits outside the commission. Some of the lines that went down until Sunday morning were not expected to be re-serviced.
For example, a circuit at Lemon Grove that went down at 5:07 p.m., affecting 1,368 customers, is estimated to remain inactive until 7 a.m. Sunday.
The most affected customers – Down Circuit – 1,896 – cover the area which includes University Heights, North Park and Normal Heights. That circuit was also expected to be out of commission until 7 p.m.
An annoying heat wave on Saturday in San Diego and virtually all of California, is expected to last until Monday, so customers can turn off their air conditioners. Saturday marks the first of three days of flex warnings ordered by CAISO.
Under the Flex warning, consumers are asked to voluntarily reduce their electricity consumption to ensure that electricity consumption does not exceed the supply. The current Flex Alert runs from 3pm to 9pm on Mondays – an important time in which solar energy is produced rapidly and grid operators must find other energy sources to replace it.
On 14 and 15 Aug Gust, CAISO issued a Stage 3 Emergency, leading to a revolving offensive in the state for the first time since 2001. About 400,000 customers were affected on the first day and the next 200,000 customers.
