State’s Energy Outlook OK

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Nearly six years after the last rolling blackout, California expects to have enough electricity to get through the summer, the Sacramento Bee reports.


But while supplies are expected to be adequate, the California Independent System Operator said Wednesday there are likely to be days when the temperature soars, and consumers are asked to conserve.


“We will count on consumers to do their part to reduce electricity use on peak days when the California appetite for megawatts rises with the mercury,” said Jim Detmers, the ISO’s vice president of operations, in a press release. The quasi-governmental ISO, based in Folsom, runs the California transmission grid.


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