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Re:Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy by dehrmann on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:29AM (#21377819)
> the estimate price of these multi-day blackouts is on the order of $1 billion per blackout

But that's not the cost to PG&E. PG&E (or the state) would have to find a way to get some of that somewhat hidden opportunity cost.

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Re:Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy by Robotbeat on Monday October 28, 2019 @12:26PM (#21378400)
The state already does that through regular, economy-wide taxes. (Maybe this is why it's a bad idea to grant a monopoly to a for-profit company like PG&E that doesn't take into account the externalities of power outages... Then again, Texas' very deregulated but non-monopoly ERCOT seems to do pretty well. So either state-owned OR deregulated may be optimums compared to PG&E...)
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