posts tagged as blackout
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April 2025
At about midday on Monday, April 28, large power outages left millions of homes and businesses in Spain and Portugal without power. The countries...
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September 2024
A recent heat wave severely strained California’s electrical grid in the Los Angeles area, leading to 24-hour outages as the grid struggled...
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March 2021
There has been a lot of finger-pointing in the aftermath of the February blackouts in Texas—with ire directed toward the state’s governor,...
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August 2020
Travis Fisher, CEO of Electricity Consumers Resource Council, joins the show to discuss what is causing California's rolling blackouts and what policies...
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July 2016
Pacific Gas and Electric will shutter its two Diablo Canyon nuclear units in 2024 and 2025, respectively, when their current operating licenses...
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June 2016
California is again having issues with adequate electricity and its customers are being told that summer blackouts may occur. Its utility scale...