As many as 10 million people across California may take turns being plunged into darkness on Monday evening as the state\u2019s grid operator works to keep the region\u2019s power system from collapsing under the strain of one of the worst heat waves in generations.<\/p>\n
The outages, which were expected to hit as soon as 4 p.m. in California, would mark the third time in four days that the state\u2019s utilities deliberately cut power to protect a grid that\u2019s been pushed to the brink of failure as people blast their air conditioners and fans to keep cool. The state is facing an electricity shortfall on Monday of about 4.4 gigawatts, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom. That\u2019s the equivalent of about four nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me just make this crystal clear: We failed to predict and plan these shortages — and that\u2019s simply unacceptable,\u201d said Newsom, who called for an investigation into why officials failed to anticipate the need for blackouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As many as 10 million people across California may take turns being plunged into darkness on Monday evening as the state\u2019s grid operator works to keep the region\u2019s power system from collapsing under the strain of one of the worst heat waves in generations. The outages, which were expected to hit as soon as 4 p.m. in California, would mark the third time in four days that the state\u2019s utilities deliberately cut power to protect a grid that\u2019s been pushed to the brink of failure as people blast their air conditioners and fans to keep cool. The state is facing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}