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Think of it as the kind of line you don’t want to be in front of.
Due to a record heat wave that punishes the power grid in California and sends the demand for climate change, the operator of the electrical network in California declared a Stage 2 emergency on Tuesday afternoon, and warned that power outages on Tuesday afternoon and evening are “likely”, except as residents and businesses in California reduce electricity consumption.
So how can you tell when your power will go out?
If the demand for electricity is greater, the network operators at the California Independent System Operator in Folsom order large utilities such as PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to set up “rolling blackouts” to reduce demand enough to not stabilizing it. Otherwise, there could be large-scale failures of the power grid across the West.
The utilities decide with whom they should outsource. PG&E has set up a website where customers can enter their addresses and find out their number “rotating exit block”.
That website is here.
The page looks like this.
After finding your address, you can compare the block number with PG & E’s list of which block numbers will turn off the power and at what time.
Most outages last 1 to 2 hours, says PG&E. If you recently shut down your power as part of a rolling blackout – the last one was Friday and affected about 220,000 customers in Monterey, Santa Cruz, Stockton and other places, you probably did not shut down in back-to-back events under PG & E’s system. Hence the name “spinning” blackouts. The idea is for everyone to share the pain, although there are exceptions for critical infrastructure such as hospitals and police stations.
You can compare your absentee block number with the list of PG&E which shows which blocks are disabled at what time.
That page looks like for Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
For example, if your failure block is 4 and your sub-block is R, then your number is 4R, you usually place to cut power at 8 p.m.
Anyone with an emission number of 50 is exempt from shutoffs. These include hospitals, police and fire stations, along with areas that were blacked out in the last round of rolling blackouts.
Again, if residents and businesses conserve during the entire demand period Tuesday and Wednesday between 4pm and 10pm, blackouts will be minimized or even perhaps completely avoided. The biggest crunch on the grill usually occurs between 6pm and 8pm, as it is still hot in many places, air conditioning is running high, and electricity production from large solar parks is falling as the sun goes down. Normally, network operators can make that hole by importing power from other states. But during record heat waves, there is less going around.
Ultimately, rolling blackouts are not the decision of PG&E and other utilities, and they are not related to the problems of PG&E in recent years that have caused fires or inflated gas lights.
Utilities are tasked with shutting down power by the California ISO to stabilize the power grid. Another type of power outage, called a Public Safety Power Shutoff, or PSPS, is something that utility companies like PG&E choose to set up in very dry, windy days in some areas, to reduce the risk of trees falling in power lines. blowing and causing large wild fires.
Finally, to view who has switched on or off the PG & E service area at any given time, go to the PG & E waste card.
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