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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by freddie_mercury on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:31PM (#21237915)
Who are the 2nd and 3rd worst power companies in the western hemisphere? Whenever someone says something is "the worst" or "the best" I wonder how much due diligence they've actually performed to compare it to the alternatives. If you're going to claim something is the worst, surely you should know several others and be able to say why PG&E is worse than them.

I mean, just off the top of my head, I'd put Venezuela's power company as worse than PG&E. More people have died from their power problems than from PG&E's. Just in March of 2019, the entire country was without power for 10 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_blackouts

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by Chai-T-Rex on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:58AM (#21238853)
I'm not sure that's down to Venezuela's power companies. That's right about when the US was trying to coup their government, right? Stuxnet's origin story can tell us a bit about what kinds of sabotage they pull.
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