‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room

Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by GWSchulz on Sunday October 13, 2019 @10:35AM (#21240565)

For years and years and years, there was a scrappy little newspaper in San Francisco that warned (very much obnoxiously at times) about PG&E’s continuing private control of energy and power in the Bay Area and Northern California.

That newspaper no longer exists. During my three years as a reporter there, I carefully avoided ever having to write PG&E stories, which were a near-fetish for the publisher, Bruce Brugmann.

But maybe he was right about giving public ownership a real shot in the Bay Area, even if he was annoying as shit about it at times. (It should also be noted that he was from a heartland state where public power is common.)

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by generalpass on Sunday October 13, 2019 @10:41AM (#21240610)

Why does it seem like there are popularly presented the following two options:

1. A single government-mandated monopoly provider everywhere with no competition.

2. Government provider.

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