California set a new record for peak energy demand, the state's power grid manager said
A Pacific Gas & Electric Co. worker moves a wire into place while installing a bypass switch in Yountville, Calif., on April 29, 2020.Sept. 7, 2022, 4:56 AM UTCUnder the strain of triple-digit temperatures in a punishing heat wave, California electric grid operators warned Tuesday of possible rolling blackouts but never took the step.
At 8 p.m., the system operator, or ISO, tweeted that it had ended the emergency alert. A spokesperson for the operator said no rotating outages were ordered. And it was: The system operator said Tuesday night the state set a record for peak energy demand, 52,061 megawatts, surpassing the previous record, 50,270 megawatts on July 24, 2006.
The last time the ISO ordered rolling blackouts was in August 2020. Before that, the last time rolling blackouts were ordered in California was in 2001.Around 50,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in the San Francisco Bay Area were without power as of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, utility spokesman J.D. Guidi said, but those were not rolling blackouts and were mostly heat-related.
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