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Switching California from gas to electricity, one neighborhood at a time | Clean-energy advocates hope a bill awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature will jump-start projects that shut down gas pipelines (www.canarymedia.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I feel like there are a lot of systemic problems with the electrical grid in California that need to be addressed before projects like this happen.

As far as I can tell there has never been any sort of reckoning among management at California utilities for the decades of underinvestment and mismanagement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

PG&E literally went bankrupt because they didn't inspect a powerline, and the cast-iron hooks holding it up swung slowly back and forth over a century until they wore through, dropping a live powerline to the ground, sparking a fire, and causing towns to burn down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah so unless there was a complete overhaul that involved firing multiple layers of management maybe putting more load on the grid isn't the best idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The bankruptcy took out a big chunk of their executive team, and induced a huge investment in grid upgrades. So completely reasonable actually.