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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by dmode on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:33PM (#17209912)
Anecdotally, I have never faced a rolling blackout in 10 years of living here. And we generate excess energy, so would be surprised if this happens.
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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by seanmcdirmid on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:38PM (#17211071)
I don’t think they’ve happened since Enron was manipulating the market, right?
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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by cjensen on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:28PM (#17211426)
Correct. Gov Davis made a series of expensive moves which rendered the manipulations ineffective. Enron was caught overextended in the wrong direction when the market shifted which directly lead to the end of Enron.
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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by dragonwriter on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:40PM (#17211514)
> Anecdotally, I have never faced a rolling blackout in 10 years of living here.

There hasn't been a Stage 3 emergency (with potential rolling blackouts) since 2001, and nothing worse than Stage 1 (and only two of those) since 2007.

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