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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by inferiorhuman on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:50PM (#21237999)
Private utilites work just fine in every other state.

Do they? The feds already had to step in when private companies deemed large swaths of the United States unprofitable (see also: rural electrification and the TVA).

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by TKWasRight on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:56AM (#21238462)
> Do they?

Yes, they do. ERCOT, as one example, is doing just fine, many of the southwest power companies are private and aren't having issues.

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