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You can also find an earlier post (Aug 14) and a wrap-up (Aug 20) on the outages. CAISO leadership says that we are looking at up to a 4400 MW shortfall between 4-9pm tonight. That is about 3.3 million homes, or twice the size of the rolling blackouts in 2001, and much larger than either […]

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