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State officials will vote next week on whether to allow four gas-fired power plants along the Southern California coast to keep operating past 2020, in the first major energy supply decision for Gov. 
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The California Legislature held a public hearing to scrutinize public safety power shutoffs after millions of residents lost power to prevent wildfires.
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Some California utilities have developed systems to shut off power in targeted locations facing the worst wildfire risk. Pacific Gas & Electric is far behind, resulting in expansive - some would say excessive - outages.
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In an unprecedented move, Pacific Gas & Electric early Wednesday began a sweeping shut off power to about 800,000 customers across Northern California in a desperate attempt to avoid wildfires caused by winds damaging power equipment.
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Power lines owned by Southern California Edison sparked the Thomas Fire, says a report by the Ventura County Fire Department.
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Northern California fire siege was largely caused by trees falling into PG& E power lines, or downed lines and other equipment.
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Offshore wind power facilities are becoming more common but a California effort faces hurdles.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While the points made about engineering challenges of deepwater, anti-wind activists, etc. are true, we are leaving out the massive challenge that is permitting in the waters off California. Many tidal projects off the California coast have all been killed by permitting. Hence we have tidal projects going in off of Oregon and Baja California, but not here (even though these are designed in the halls and computers of California firms).
Our soon to be shuttered offshore oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel are one potential source of help in this deepwater environment. To be sure, these are enough of a platform, but they could be parts/nodes of a wider array of ocean-based energy production.
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In a new study, a team of Michigan State University scientists designed and fabricated a remote forest fire detection and alarm system powered by nothing but the movement of the trees in the wind. Via EcoVadis
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California utilities are woefully behind on maintenance and new power systems to prevent long-term blackouts.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Welcome to the new era of climate change-induced deploring of our ancient electrical grid.
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Latest information and map on where Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it will shut off power Wednesday in Northern California, including parts of the Bay Area, Sacramento and 34 counties total due to fire risk.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
What a difference a year makes...
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Southern California Edison says its equipment was involved in one of two ignition points for the massive Thomas fire that burned in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in 2017.
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It’s a heated subject on the South Coast. Efforts to build two new power plants in the region have created a firestorm of controversy for years. Now, not
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An agreement on paying for the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant near San Clemente needs to be more favorable to consumers, state regulators said Friday.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
When we calculate the direct costs (leaving aside the issues related to waste internment and multi-millenium storage of highly radioactive substances) of nuclear power, decommissioning must be in the equation. I have found such costs rarely are accounted for. When they are the estimates are typically rarely close to the actual amounts we have seen (e.g. >$4 billion for this SONGS example).
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
September 6, 2014 10:48 AM
When we calculate the direct costs (leaving aside the issues related to waste internment and multi-millenium storage of highly radioactive substances) of nuclear power, decommissioning must be in the equation. I have found such costs rarely are accounted for. When they are the estimates are typically rarely close to the actual amounts we have seen (e.g. >$4 billion for this SONGS example). |
