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Re:Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped by jessaustin on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:00PM (#24189130)
Plausible, but then why is it happening in California and not in similarly NIMBYist states? Electromagnetism obsessives live all over the nation.
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Re:Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped by creato on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:04PM (#24189167)
My impression is that california uniquely empowers individuals to obstruct projects with myriad legal mechanisms that are easy to initiate but expensive to fight.
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Re:Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped by holycrapwhodat on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:26PM (#24194661)
CEQA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Environmental_Quali...

Ever since it was passed, NIMBYs and other types of individualists have found more and more ways to use its provisions to block anything from happening that they don't want to happen.

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Re:Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped by war1025 on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:38PM (#24193576)
Rumblings I heard had to do with too-aggressively retiring traditional power plants in favor of renewables, resulting in a lack of adequate baseload power.

But I have looked into it exactly zero.

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