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"content": "\u003cp>California’s grid manager is calling for another round of aggressive conservation as a historic heatwave pushes the state toward a power emergency for the second straight day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliot Mainzer, chief of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), says the state was spared rotating blackouts Tuesday night only because of a strong response to an emergency alert that went out to 27-million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need the exact same type of response tonight,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11924946\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-800x498.png\" alt=\"A chart shows a dramatic drop in electricity demand after an emergency alert went out to millions of Californians.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-1020x635.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-1536x956.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-1920x1196.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM.png 1924w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This chart from CAISO shows how sharply electricity demand fell after an emergency alert went out to millions of Californians. The green dotted line shows the forecast for energy demand looking a day ahead. The blue dotted line shows the forecast looking an hour ahead. \u003ccite>(California Independent System Operator)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A statewide Flex Alert for power conservation kicks in at 4 p.m. and continues through 9 this evening. Consumers are asked to set thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, if their medical conditions permit that. Grid managers also ask that people turn off unnecessary lights and avoid using major appliances or re-charging electric cars during the Flex Alert period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 35,700 people lost electricity Tuesday in the South Bay and beyond, including Cupertino, Campbell, San José, Milpitas and Morgan Hill. Most of the outages were heat-related, said Jason King of Pacific Gas and Electric Tuesday evening. The utility said high power demand overloaded electrical equipment, and the prolonged extreme heat degraded its infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11878134,news_11924833,news_11886628' label='Resources for Extreme Heat]Crews from PG&E worked overnight to restore power and got the number of customers affected down to about 3,585 as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, with more than 3,000 of those located in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO acknowledged that a miscommunication led to the small number of power shutoffs. Two small local power companies\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — \u003c/span>Alameda Municipal Power and Palo Alto Utilities\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — \u003c/span>put in place rotating outages after 6 p.m. for about an hour, affecting several thousand customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The miscommunication occurred Tuesday afternoon as the grid was perilously close to running out of energy, Mainzer said at a briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he did not know specifically how the miscommunication occurred, but he stressed the grid operator did not order rotating blackouts. CAISO had ordered utilities to prepare to institute load shedding but did not proceed to the final order to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO issued a Stage 3 emergency power alert Tuesday,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>one step below ordering utilities to start rotating outages to ease the strain on the system. The move allowed it to draw on emergency power sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand swelled in the late afternoon and into the evening, with everyone from Gov. Gavin Newsom to the state’s legal marijuana business control agency urging people to turn off lights and reduce power or use backup generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO said the peak electricity demand on Tuesday hit 52,061 megawatts, far above the previous high of 50,270 megawatts set on July 24, 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand fell toward evening as businesses closed, and dropped sharply after CAISO sent out a message on its mobile phone app begging customers to cut back their use, warning that “power interruptions may occur unless you take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within moments we saw a significant amount of load reduction,” Mainzer said, adding that it took the state back from “the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stage 3 alert ended at 8 p.m. without major rotating outages. CAISO tweeted that “consumer conservation played a big part in protecting electric grid reliability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924959\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1235px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11924959 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps.png\" alt=\"A map showing Bay Area cities with record-breaking temperatures on Sept. 6.\" width=\"1235\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps.png 1235w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps-800x652.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps-1020x832.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps-160x130.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1235px) 100vw, 1235px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heat records were shattered in Santa Rosa, Napa and San Jose, and tied in Livermore and Redwood City. Source: \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MTR&issuedby=MTR&product=RER&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0\">National Weather Service, SF Bay Area office\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Western states, meanwhile, were still struggling through one of the hottest and longest September heat waves on record. Temperatures began soaring last week, and the National Weather Service warned that dangerous heat could continue through Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temperatures in many parts of the state soared to record highs. Six places in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Coast set all-time record temperatures, including Santa Rosa with 115 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking a 109-year-old record. Sacramento broke a 97-year-old record, with a temperature of 116 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento native Debbie Chang was out walking in Capitol Park on Tuesday morning, pulling a wagon of Pop-Tarts and water to hand out to unhoused people. She lives in an old house that relies on wall-mounted cooling units that she says don’t work so well. The temperature reached 91 degrees in her house Monday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The past few years in California, it’s really rough,” she said. “I really love this state. And growing up I never imagined I’d exactly want to live outside of California, unless maybe internationally. But this is very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County officials used the air-conditioned lobbies of some of their public buildings as cooling centers for people with nowhere else to go and offered free transportation for people who could not get there. 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It came within 2 degrees of the all-time high for any day or month of 108 degrees, set in July 2002 and equaled in July 2007, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Utah’s Salt Lake City — a city at more than 4,000 feet — temperatures were about 20 degrees higher than normal, hitting 105 on Tuesday, the hottest September day recorded going back to 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wildfire that started Friday in the Northern California community of Weed killed two people, and one that erupted Monday and spread rapidly in the Hemet area of Southern California also killed two people. 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He emphasized the role climate change was playing in the heat wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us have been trying to outrun Mother Nature, but it’s pretty clear Mother Nature has outrun us,” Newsom said. “The reality is we’re living in an era of extremes: extreme heat, extreme drought — and with the flooding we’re experiencing around the globe.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11878134,science_1979812,forum_2010101884331]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lawrence, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, told KQED’s Forum on Thursday that extreme heat events have become increasingly frequent and intense in the western United States over the past few decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s declaration followed a Flex Alert call for energy conservation on Wednesday afternoon and again Thursday afternoon by the California Independent System Operator, which oversees the state’s electrical grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2020, a record heat wave caused a surge in power use for air-conditioning that overtaxed the grid. 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Anaheim, home to Disneyland, had an all-time August record of 106. Death Valley fried at 123.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘All of us have been trying to outrun Mother Nature, but it’s pretty clear Mother Nature has outrun us.’[/pullquote]Excessive-heat warnings were in effect for Southern California and up into the Central Valley. The heat was expected to spread into Northern California and could top 100 degrees in San Francisco Bay Area hills, although San Francisco probably would only have highs in the 70s and 80s, forecasters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service warned of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd\">an increased risk of wildfires\u003c/a>. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection planned to stage fire crews in strategic locations, based on humidity and wind forecasts, said Mark Ghilarducci, director of the Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, wildfires broke out in bone-dry brush in rural San Diego County and Castaic in the Santa Clarita Valley north of Los Angeles, where a mobile home park was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wildfires quickly burned several thousand acres and shut down highways. Eight firefighters battling the Castaic blaze were treated for heat-related problems and six were taken to the hospital, Los Angeles County Fire Department Deputy Chief Thomas Ewald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wearing heavy firefighting gear, carrying packs, dragging hose, swinging tools, the folks out there are just taking a beating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of fire could also increase over the Labor Day weekend when crowds are expected to descend on wilderness areas to camp, hike or fish and a spark or an ember from an untended fire could set brush ablaze, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, California’s power concerns come in the midst of rising temperatures and a drought, both of which have affected much of the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anticipated imports of hydropower from the Pacific Northwest and energy from the desert Southwest dried up because warmer weather in those regions drove up demand there, Mainzer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite more than 160 projects to increase power supply and storage by 4,000 megawatts after outages two years ago, the state’s power supply was partly flattened by the impact of the ongoing drought, which has sapped a significant share of the state’s hydropower production as reservoir levels drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s order allows use of backup diesel generators to put less strain on the system and won’t require ships at port to plug into onshore electricity sources. The move is expected to increase air pollution, but Karen Douglas, the governor’s senior energy advisor, said the priority was to keep the lights on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the Legislature approved extending the life of the state’s \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924367/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924367/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">last operating nuclear power plant\u003c/a> by five years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate change era. 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To put that into context, during one of two rolling blackouts called last year, the loss of just 248 megawatts at a plant in the Central Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842647/what-caused-augusts-rolling-blackouts-experts-say-its-still-not-totally-clear\">was the final tipping point into an emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a significant portion of the state’s power supply,” Mainzer said. “I really want to emphasize, we are asking a lot of consumers, but we’ve been using every tool at our disposal to keep the lights on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s statewide energy issues have been exacerbated by wildfires unlike last year, when California ISO admitted that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878348/during-rolling-blackouts-last-summer-california-kept-exporting-power-out-of-state-theres-still-no-permanent-fix\">it was exporting energy to other states as demand peaked in California\u003c/a>. That prompted ISO to call the first rolling blackouts in 19 years on two evenings in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to free up additional energy resources quickly, Gov. 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Mainzer, the California ISO CEO, told the press Saturday that California needs to think ahead about how to shore up its energy in the new reality of ever-growing wildfires and heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think all of us recognize,” he said, “that California has a significant amount of additional capacity it needs to put into the system here in the years ahead to adapt to these changing patterns of load, and temperatures, and heat, and even the potential for extended drought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get away from the edge (capacity-wise) where we are now, but it will take some time,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire season has seen challenges arise across the state, as the Beckwourth Complex of fires in California’s northeast saw nearly 200 square miles of the Plumas National Forest closed, and forced evacuations across state lines into Nevada on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Beckwourth Complex, which began as two lightning-caused fires in Plumas National Forest, showed “extreme behavior,” fire information officer Lisa Cox said Friday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1413211388982579201\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hot rising air formed a gigantic, smoky pyrocumulus cloud that reached thousands of feet high and created its own lightning, Cox said. 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Just under half a million homes and businesses went dark for as long as 2½ hours on Aug. 14, with another 321,000 utility customers losing power for up to 90 minutes the following evening. While relatively minor compared to last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836990/pge-shutoffs-are-here-again-what-to-know-about-power-outages-today\">massive electricity shutoffs\u003c/a> aimed at preventing power lines from sparking wildfires, the mishap exposed a host of statewide grid issues and poor planning, a cautionary tale as California heads into what promises to be another hot, dry summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s first readiness test has already come this week, with a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1404531752823975938?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">major heat wave\u003c/a> that continues to hit much of the state. Those conditions have prompted California ISO to issue its first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878332\">Flex Alert\u003c/a> of the year — urging people to conserve energy between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday to prevent a repeat of the 2020 blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the California Public Utilities Commission directed the state’s utility companies to line up more power supplies, including from natural gas plants. Energy storage and conservation efforts have also gotten a boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These efforts came after California ISO, the CPUC and the California Energy Commission also laid partial blame for last summer’s blackouts on scheduling coordinators — the liaisons between power plants and California ISO — whom they said failed to secure enough power resources ahead of what ended up being two of the hottest days of the year, according to a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Preliminary-Root-Cause-Analysis-Rotating-Outages-August-2020.pdf\">root-cause analysis\u003c/a>” demanded last year by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"power-grid\"]At the same time, a software problem signaled that California had excess power that it could comfortably export to other states. As it turned out, though, power demand in California exceeded what was actually available. The report cited “convergence bidding,” a financial tool that energy traders use to bet on what the state’s power needs will be for the following day. Although intended to help keep electricity prices stable, the mechanism instead “masked tight supply conditions” during the August heat wave, the analysis concluded. California ISO \u003ca href=\"https://energycentral.com/news/trying-avoid-repeat-last-summers-blackouts\">later said\u003c/a> it had fixed the software flaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Western states routinely exchange power. To keep up with its massive energy needs in real time, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46156\">imports\u003c/a> more power from its neighbors — mainly Nevada and Arizona — than any other state. It also returns the favor, exporting excess power when neighbors need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last summer’s rolling blackouts accelerated debate over California’s role in moving power across state lines when demand spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they prioritized exports at the expense of [California’s] load is mind-boggling,” said Rick Humphreys, a retired engineer and power reliability expert. “Where’s the dividing line between being nice to your neighbors and being overly nice to your neighbors at the expense of California customers?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after months of meetings, stakeholder calls and workshops aimed at ensuring the state’s grid operators and regulators are prepared for this summer, the debate is expected to continue well into next year. For now, California ISO has proposed temporary changes to market rules that aim to prioritize California’s needs, including some restrictions on trades that use California’s grid as a pathway to transport power from one state to another — known as “wheel-through transactions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical the CAISO have reasonable measures in place to address this situation more effectively,” the grid operator wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Apr28-2021-Tariff-Amendment-Load-Exports-and-Wheeling-Tariff-Amendment-ER21-1790.pdf\">proposal \u003c/a>it has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve by the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going into this summer, California ISO and the CPUC’s Energy Division have at times clashed over the specifics of the updated rules. While the CPUC has been generally supportive of the proposed changes, it has also questioned whether they go far enough, specifically raising concerns that they will still prioritize wheel-through transactions over the state’s needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If allowed to continue, [this] will seriously jeopardize reliability in the state and undermine the resource adequacy and transmission planning processes,” CPUC regulatory analyst Michele Kito wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/Comments/AllComments/2baf326f-dddd-485d-b374-4a2695c1dce5\">recent comments\u003c/a> on California ISO’s market reform proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions in the run-up to last summer’s rolling blackouts — when California ISO allowed exports of more than 4,000 megawatts of electricity (enough to power approximately 3 million \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/about/Pages/OurBusiness/Understanding-electricity.aspx#:~:text=Megawatt,of%20day%20and%20other%20factors.\">homes\u003c/a>) — serve as an example of what happens when exports and wheel-through trades are given priority during tight conditions, Kito wrote. “A durable solution will need to be developed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California ISO has expressed confidence that its changes will help California through this summer, despite reduced hydropower capacity due to drought conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are members of a vastly interwoven western electricity market, both importing and exporting energy. Our transmission system is built to accomplish that,” California ISO President and CEO Elliot Mainzer said on a media call Wednesday afternoon. But he also signaled that the status quo may be changing. “We are really moving into a mode where what we used to consider one-in-30-year events are becoming truly a new normal, which will force some level of rethinking of what that dependency could look like.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Loretta Lynch, former California Public Utilities Commission president\"]‘My biggest concern here is if California doesn’t get this right, not only does this cost us money, it hurts real people.’[/pullquote]More adjustments are on the horizon, according to Ben Hobbs, chair of California ISO’s Market Surveillance Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never been as clear as we should have been about who has rights to use California’s grid,” Hobbs said, adding that California’s dependence on imports means it must play nice with other states. “If we just said to Arizona that they can’t use our grid for wheel-through power anymore, that would really upset how things have gone for decades. You can bet Arizona is going to be really ticked off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hobbs said California consumers must be willing to pay higher prices to secure power when competition with other states tightens during a crunch. He likens the state-to-state competition for energy to a game of musical chairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If prices here are $100 or $150 [per megawatt-hour], whereas Arizona is willing to pay $2,000 at a time that we’re curtailing load, we’re not going to get our fanny in the chair when the music stops. That’s a particular thing that needs to be fixed,” Hobbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have blasted the idea of allowing higher prices, especially with so many lingering questions about last year’s rolling blackouts, including what they ultimately cost ratepayers — a price tag that California ISO says it has no plans to tally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would California want to expose itself to a game of musical chairs when it comes to safety and our economy?” said Loretta Lynch, who was president of the CPUC during California’s 2000-2001 energy crisis. “We should require the CPUC and California ISO to use their regulatory and enforcement authority to lock in clean electricity at reasonable prices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch has called on California’s attorney general to investigate California ISO’s role in last year’s rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest concern here is if California doesn’t get this right, not only does this cost us money, it hurts real people,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joanna Gardias and Dominic Moscatello are UC Berkeley undergraduate students. They contributed to this story after completing a course on energy regulation at the Goldman School of Public Policy taught by Steve Weissman.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When hundreds of thousands of Californians lost power during a heat wave over two evenings last August, California was also — unbeknownst to most ratepayers — exporting thousands of megawatts of power to neighboring states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rolling blackouts, the first in two decades, have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842647/what-caused-augusts-rolling-blackouts-experts-say-its-still-not-totally-clear\">largely blamed\u003c/a> on factors like climate change-induced heat waves and the state’s large-scale transition to renewable energy generation. And while the California Independent System Operator — which manages 80% of the state’s grid — has acknowledged it also allowed power exports at the time, the state has yet to come up with a permanent fix to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rotating outages didn’t last long, cutting the lights for only a small fraction of the state’s 40 million residents. Just under half a million homes and businesses went dark for as long as 2½ hours on Aug. 14, with another 321,000 utility customers losing power for up to 90 minutes the following evening. While relatively minor compared to last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836990/pge-shutoffs-are-here-again-what-to-know-about-power-outages-today\">massive electricity shutoffs\u003c/a> aimed at preventing power lines from sparking wildfires, the mishap exposed a host of statewide grid issues and poor planning, a cautionary tale as California heads into what promises to be another hot, dry summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s first readiness test has already come this week, with a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1404531752823975938?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">major heat wave\u003c/a> that continues to hit much of the state. Those conditions have prompted California ISO to issue its first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878332\">Flex Alert\u003c/a> of the year — urging people to conserve energy between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday to prevent a repeat of the 2020 blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the California Public Utilities Commission directed the state’s utility companies to line up more power supplies, including from natural gas plants. Energy storage and conservation efforts have also gotten a boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At 6:13 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, a gas-fired power plant in the Central Valley city of Firebaugh suddenly ramped down production. The move was the exact opposite of what California's Independent System Operator wanted the Panoche Energy Center power plant to do at that moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO, which manages most of the state's electric grid, was already struggling to find enough power to meet demand during a regional heat wave. It hoped to avoid a repeat of the previous day, when it had called for rolling blackouts — California's first in nearly two decades. But the loss of about 250 megawatts at Panoche would ultimately prompt the agency to call for more rolling blackouts that evening.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bill Powers, energy consultant\"]'It was such a Homer Simpson move to back off on power at a time when the grid needed that power.'[/pullquote]CAISO later reported that it understood the ramp down \"to be due to an erroneous dispatch\" from the plant's scheduling coordinator. Every power plant has a scheduling coordinator, acting as the point of contact between CAISO and the plant, relaying and confirming the grid operator's instructions on whether the plant should ramp production up or down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, two details have been left out of CAISO’s public account of what happened at the Panoche plant that day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. The incident was the “final tipping point” before CAISO began the process of initiating a second day of rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. The scheduling coordinator who delivered the erroneous dispatch was PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last year’s rolling blackouts, which left hundreds of thousands of Californians without power for parts of two consecutive evenings, CAISO has produced two root-cause analysis reports issued jointly with California's Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission — \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Preliminary-Root-Cause-Analysis-Rotating-Outages-August-2020.pdf\">one in October\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Final-Root-Cause-Analysis-Mid-August-2020-Extreme-Heat-Wave.pdf\">another in January\u003c/a>. Both reports run more than a 100 pages, and conclude that the Aug. 15 rolling blackouts \"were not caused by any single generator or resource type.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the reports mostly place blame on \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-10-06/california-rolling-blackouts-climate-change-poor-planning\">climate change and poor planning\u003c/a>, the context regarding the incident at Panoche, which is operated by a private investment firm, remains murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not at all clear why a modest 248-megawatt reduction in output from Panoche would have precipitated rolling blackouts 15 minutes later,\" said Bill Powers, a San Diego-based energy consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was such a Homer Simpson move to back off on power at a time when the grid needed that power,\" he added. He said it speaks to larger issues about CAISO's clarity on other major factors, including the fact that California was exporting power during the rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in response to media inquiries from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-error-at-power-plant-may-help-explain-15567028.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842647/what-caused-augusts-rolling-blackouts-experts-say-its-still-not-totally-clear\">PG&E confirmed\u003c/a> it had made the erroneous dispatch, and said it immediately corrected the problem after identifying it. The outage at Panoche lasted less than 30 minutes, according to PG&E, which said the drop represented roughly 0.5% of CAISO's total load of 44,913 megawatts at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email this month, PG&E spokesperson James Noonan wrote: \"Importantly, this incident was not cited as a contributing factor in the joint agencies' final root cause analysis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that contradicts what CAISO recently told KQED. \"The ramp down at Panoche was clearly cited in the root cause analysis as a contributing cause of the rotating outages,\" CAISO spokesperson Anne Gonzales said in an email last week.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nAnd in an email from last October, Gonzales called the loss of the nearly 250 megawatts at Panoche \"a final tipping point leading to resource deficiency.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No version of that phrase appears in the public reports prepared for Gov. Gavin Newsom — including the most recent one issued in January. 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Nearly all said they were unaware that the Panoche incident was the “final tipping point” into resource deficiency, or that PG&E played any role at Panoche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s perplexing,\" said Assemblymember Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, vice chair of the committee. \"There’s a lot of ambiguity about exactly what happened. Communication should have been crystal clear with the gas plants that can fire up and provide reliable base load. If that was the tipping point, we are too easily tipped over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we see the failure of our system resulting in massive blackouts like we did last summer, the public deserves full, clear and transparent answers as to why the system failed,\" said Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, D-San Ramon, who joined the committee this year. \"Anything less is unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of Assemblymember Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who chairs the energy committee, issued a statement to KQED echoing CAISO’s stance, but did not respond to questions about whether CAISO and state regulatory agencies should have told lawmakers that PG&E is the plant's scheduling coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mishap has also prompted some energy experts to note that allowing PG&E to serve as a scheduling coordinator is like letting the same party be both broker and accountant in a financial transaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO recently denied KQED’s second request for unedited sound recordings of verbal communications that occurred between CAISO and the PG&E scheduling coordinator at Panoche on the evening of Aug. 15. 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"content": "\u003cp>In their ongoing investigation into what caused California’s rolling blackouts in August, the state’s electrical grid operator and utility regulators have focused primarily on structural issues like climate change-driven heat and the transition to renewable energy sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two months after the historic event, officials still haven’t come up with a definitive set of answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Frank Wolak, Stanford economics professor\"]‘How do we keep the lights on in a world in which a growing share of generation capacity supplies power when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still trying to do a lot of work to understand the data we have,” Delphine Hou, director of regulatory affairs for the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), said during a public stakeholder’s call last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rolling blackouts, the state’s first in almost two decades, thrust more than 800,000 Californians into the dark during an intense heatwave on Aug. 14 and 15, when operators directed utilities to shut down power to prevent the grid from being overwhelmed. But some energy experts say key questions about the sequence of events that led to the blackouts have gone unanswered or unacknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, CAISO’s public summaries — including a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Preliminary-Root-Cause-Analysis-Rotating-Outages-August-2020.pdf\">108-page Oct. 6 preliminary analysis \u003c/a>compiled jointly with the state’s Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission — makes no mention of an outage that occurred at Ormond Beach Unit 1 in Oxnard, a natural gas plant with a whopping 741-megawatt generating capacity. The plant went offline for maintenance just eight minutes before CAISO declared a Stage 3 emergency on Aug. 14, notes energy expert Bill Powers, the head of Powers Engineering in San Diego. He says the record of that incident is \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/08132020-08162020-ActiveOutages-Public.xlsx\">buried in a spreadsheet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, CAISO’s timeline focuses on a plant in Blythe, a city in Riverside County, where an outage that same afternoon had been resolved for more than 40 minutes by the time CAISO called for rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ISO’s messaging in the immediate wake of these blackouts was nontransparent and much of it appears to be incorrect,” Powers said. “Ormond Beach is the elephant in the room. Why is that elephant invisible? Why are we talking about Blythe Energy Center which had nothing to do with the blackout?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also lingering questions about CAISO’s accounting of events on Aug. 15, when the liaison between CAISO and Panoche Energy Center, a power plant near Fresno, issued what CAISO calls an “erroneous dispatch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That liaison, known as a scheduling coordinator, told the power plant to ramp down output as demand was peaking. A CAISO outage report issued on \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Aug14-15-OutageFactSheet.pdf\">Sept. 11 omits that PG&E\u003c/a> was the scheduling coordinator, and that its personnel made the erroneous dispatch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-error-at-power-plant-may-help-explain-15567028.php\"> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and KQED reported last month on PG&E’s role, which is also left out of the Oct. 6 analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s action — which resulted in 248 megawatts of power coming off the state’s grid — took place three minutes before CAISO declared a \u003ca href=\"https://www.caiso.com/Documents/SystemAlertsWarningsandEmergenciesFactSheet.pdf\">Stage 2 emergency\u003c/a>, denoting it was no longer able to provide expected energy requirements. The Stage 3 declaration — signaling that shutoffs were imminent — followed 12 minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says the ramp-down lasted less than half an hour, and that it corrected the error immediately upon identifying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E does not know if the error resulted in rotating outages,” said company spokesman James Noonan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility did not respond to KQED’s questions about whether it took action to prevent similar incidents from happening again, or if any company personnel were disciplined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People make mistakes. That’s why well-run organizations have checks and balances to discover those mistakes before they cause harm,” said Steve Weissman, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, PG&E has run into problems because it has not tended to maintain those kinds of quality control processes,” he said. “If PG&E had systems in place to catch those mistakes, why did they miss this one?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last several weeks, CAISO has declined KQED’s requests to review recordings of verbal communications between PG&E and CAISO, which could shed light on whether CAISO was aware of the error in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PG&E said the utility informed CAISO of the full details of the incident three days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"california-public-utilities-commission\"]The issue of how quickly CAISO can see — and react to — what the state’s many power resources are producing, matters significantly as California transitions away from fossil fuels to more renewable energy sources, according to Daniel Kammen, director of UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://rael.berkeley.edu/\">Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a system with better data feedback and more real-time updates so CAISO can make the right decisions,” Kammen said. “We need to know precisely what’s happening. Technology makes that very possible today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kammen hasn’t studied what happened at the Ormond Beach plant, he says the timing of the rolling blackouts looks “completely tied” to that lack of capacity. In his view, energy storage is critical to ensuring reliability during the growing shift to renewables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They simply don’t know what resources they have available to them. We’ve had 10 years of planning to try and fix that,” Kammen added. “That’s CAISO’s job. If they don’t have the capacity, they should ask the governor’s office and the [public utilities commission] for whatever they need to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO officials have highlighted problems with the complex energy market it operates. In that market, much of the state’s power is booked just a day in advance. A practice called “convergence bidding” — which involves trading virtual power — is intended to smooth the gap between the day-ahead and real-time markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not set up correctly,” Hou said on last week’s call. “So the real-time market had to work extra hard to untangle what was set up a day ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Oct. 6 analysis of the blackouts, scheduling coordinators “under-scheduled” or didn’t line up enough power ahead of time, meaning the market didn’t “reflect the actual need on the system.” That, in turn, signaled that “more [energy] exports were ultimately supportable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, says former CPUC President Loretta Lynch, California was exporting power up until CAISO called for rolling blackouts. “They were serving the energy traders over the California economy,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO contends that the regionwide August heat storm made import opportunities scarce. On last week’s call, when asked why it did not consider curtailing exports during the two-day blackout, an official asked for patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to put into perspective how the timing of this happened. We started taking action as we unraveled these layers,” said Guillermo Bautista Alderete, CAISO’s director of market analysis and forecasting. “We have to first analyze what happened. Then understand what happened. Then look at our next opportunity to effectuate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last week, CAISO has announced the departures of two top executives: Vice President of Operations Eric Schmitt and Vice President of Technology Petar Ristanovic. A CAISO spokesperson said both men had been considering retirement for some time, and that their decisions were unrelated to this summer’s outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, experts will be looking for signs of a paradigm shift in how the state ensures it can provide reliable power to Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we keep the lights on in a world in which a growing share of generation capacity supplies power when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing?” asked Frank Wolak, an economics professor at Stanford, who chaired CAISO’s Market Surveillance Committee from 1998-2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still trying to do a lot of work to understand the data we have,” Delphine Hou, director of regulatory affairs for the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), said during a public stakeholder’s call last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rolling blackouts, the state’s first in almost two decades, thrust more than 800,000 Californians into the dark during an intense heatwave on Aug. 14 and 15, when operators directed utilities to shut down power to prevent the grid from being overwhelmed. But some energy experts say key questions about the sequence of events that led to the blackouts have gone unanswered or unacknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, CAISO’s public summaries — including a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Preliminary-Root-Cause-Analysis-Rotating-Outages-August-2020.pdf\">108-page Oct. 6 preliminary analysis \u003c/a>compiled jointly with the state’s Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission — makes no mention of an outage that occurred at Ormond Beach Unit 1 in Oxnard, a natural gas plant with a whopping 741-megawatt generating capacity. The plant went offline for maintenance just eight minutes before CAISO declared a Stage 3 emergency on Aug. 14, notes energy expert Bill Powers, the head of Powers Engineering in San Diego. He says the record of that incident is \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/08132020-08162020-ActiveOutages-Public.xlsx\">buried in a spreadsheet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, CAISO’s timeline focuses on a plant in Blythe, a city in Riverside County, where an outage that same afternoon had been resolved for more than 40 minutes by the time CAISO called for rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ISO’s messaging in the immediate wake of these blackouts was nontransparent and much of it appears to be incorrect,” Powers said. “Ormond Beach is the elephant in the room. Why is that elephant invisible? Why are we talking about Blythe Energy Center which had nothing to do with the blackout?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also lingering questions about CAISO’s accounting of events on Aug. 15, when the liaison between CAISO and Panoche Energy Center, a power plant near Fresno, issued what CAISO calls an “erroneous dispatch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That liaison, known as a scheduling coordinator, told the power plant to ramp down output as demand was peaking. A CAISO outage report issued on \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Aug14-15-OutageFactSheet.pdf\">Sept. 11 omits that PG&E\u003c/a> was the scheduling coordinator, and that its personnel made the erroneous dispatch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-error-at-power-plant-may-help-explain-15567028.php\"> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and KQED reported last month on PG&E’s role, which is also left out of the Oct. 6 analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s action — which resulted in 248 megawatts of power coming off the state’s grid — took place three minutes before CAISO declared a \u003ca href=\"https://www.caiso.com/Documents/SystemAlertsWarningsandEmergenciesFactSheet.pdf\">Stage 2 emergency\u003c/a>, denoting it was no longer able to provide expected energy requirements. The Stage 3 declaration — signaling that shutoffs were imminent — followed 12 minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says the ramp-down lasted less than half an hour, and that it corrected the error immediately upon identifying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E does not know if the error resulted in rotating outages,” said company spokesman James Noonan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The issue of how quickly CAISO can see — and react to — what the state’s many power resources are producing, matters significantly as California transitions away from fossil fuels to more renewable energy sources, according to Daniel Kammen, director of UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://rael.berkeley.edu/\">Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a system with better data feedback and more real-time updates so CAISO can make the right decisions,” Kammen said. “We need to know precisely what’s happening. Technology makes that very possible today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kammen hasn’t studied what happened at the Ormond Beach plant, he says the timing of the rolling blackouts looks “completely tied” to that lack of capacity. In his view, energy storage is critical to ensuring reliability during the growing shift to renewables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They simply don’t know what resources they have available to them. We’ve had 10 years of planning to try and fix that,” Kammen added. “That’s CAISO’s job. If they don’t have the capacity, they should ask the governor’s office and the [public utilities commission] for whatever they need to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO officials have highlighted problems with the complex energy market it operates. In that market, much of the state’s power is booked just a day in advance. A practice called “convergence bidding” — which involves trading virtual power — is intended to smooth the gap between the day-ahead and real-time markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not set up correctly,” Hou said on last week’s call. “So the real-time market had to work extra hard to untangle what was set up a day ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Oct. 6 analysis of the blackouts, scheduling coordinators “under-scheduled” or didn’t line up enough power ahead of time, meaning the market didn’t “reflect the actual need on the system.” That, in turn, signaled that “more [energy] exports were ultimately supportable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, says former CPUC President Loretta Lynch, California was exporting power up until CAISO called for rolling blackouts. “They were serving the energy traders over the California economy,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO contends that the regionwide August heat storm made import opportunities scarce. On last week’s call, when asked why it did not consider curtailing exports during the two-day blackout, an official asked for patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to put into perspective how the timing of this happened. We started taking action as we unraveled these layers,” said Guillermo Bautista Alderete, CAISO’s director of market analysis and forecasting. “We have to first analyze what happened. Then understand what happened. Then look at our next opportunity to effectuate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last week, CAISO has announced the departures of two top executives: Vice President of Operations Eric Schmitt and Vice President of Technology Petar Ristanovic. A CAISO spokesperson said both men had been considering retirement for some time, and that their decisions were unrelated to this summer’s outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, experts will be looking for signs of a paradigm shift in how the state ensures it can provide reliable power to Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we keep the lights on in a world in which a growing share of generation capacity supplies power when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing?” asked Frank Wolak, an economics professor at Stanford, who chaired CAISO’s Market Surveillance Committee from 1998-2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> The agency that manages the state’s electrical grid is issuing a statewide power conservation alert with the ongoing heat wave and the demand for electricity expected to intensify over the next two to three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Independent System Operator\u003c/a> said Sunday morning it will declare a Flex Alert to cover the period through Wednesday evening and cautioned that power outages are likely in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California ISO continues to experience considerable challenges on the electric grid during this record breaking heat wave,” the agency said in a system operating message. “… Grid operators are working to secure every megawatt available in the system and for import, however consumers and stakeholders should be prepared for the likelihood of power outages during the late afternoon and evening hours. Our forecast suggest temperatures and demand for energy are increasing from previous days. Energy supplies will continue to be limited throughout the week and conservation is urgently needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s announcement follows two consecutive nights during which the power agency has run critically low on reserve generating capacity and ordered rotating blackouts. 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In fact, the ISO’s early projection puts peak demand at within 1% of the record generation levels set during the July 2006 heat storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, last updated 8:10 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second evening in a row, California electrical grid managers Saturday night declared a power emergency, prompting a round of rolling power outages in parts of PG&E’s service territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said Saturday night that rotating blackouts began at 6:30 p.m. and affected about 220,000 customers in portions of the Central Coast and Central Valley, including Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Joaquin counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E \u003ca href=\"http://critweb-outage.pgealerts.com/?WT.mc_id=Vanity_pge-outages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outage lists\u003c/a> showed about 62,000 customers without power in and around Stockton and another 35,000 blacked out in the Monterey and Carmel areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power restoration began within an hour after the blackouts started, the company said. It said it expected all of the affected customers to have their lights back on by midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator, the agency that manages the state’s complex power grid, had expressed optimism as late as 4:30 p.m. that no emergency declaration would be necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency Friday night — formally known as a Stage 3 System Emergency — had prompted PG&E and other major utilities to conduct rotating blackouts in their service areas. The rolling outages were the first imposed in the state since the electricity deregulation crisis of 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the most extensive Friday night outages took place in the North Bay. PG&E said those outages affected about 220,000 customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday night’s Stage 3 emergency occurred as most of California endured a second straight day of triple-digit temperatures. The demand for air-conditioning across the state drove consumption levels nearly as high as they had been on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although CAISO had issued a series of warnings and alerts throughout the Saturday that the reserve generating capacity needed to maintain grid stability might be insufficient, the situation seemed to have eased by late afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the afternoon, CAISO spokeswoman Anne Gonzales said in a phone interview that the agency’s operations team believed “we’ll meet power needs without going into an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at 6:15 p.m., the agency issued a Stage 2 alert as demand stayed relatively high and supply fell with the daily drop in solar power available to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 6:27 p.m., CAISO issued its Stage 3 emergency notice and ordered PG&E and others to reduce demand through rotating outages. 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Blackouts occurred several times from January to May, including one that affected more than 1.5 million customers in March. The cause was a combination of energy shortages and market manipulation by energy wholesalers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779330/newsom-pge-and-the-perils-of-power-politics\">including Enron Corp., which infamously drove up prices by withholding energy supplies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties up and down the state reported scattered outages, although the city of Los Angeles, which has its own power generating system, wasn’t affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments warned people to watch out on roads where stoplights were out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, the Santa Rosa Police Department received a flood of calls and pleaded with residents: “Please do not call 911 unless you have an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Heat wave continues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The heat surpassed historical records in several cities Friday. 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