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California's creaking power grid on brink of collapse, experts say

#washingtonexaminer #california #energy It was 1882 and Los Angeles Mayor Homer Toberman was excitedly standing next to a 150-foot power pole at the city’s busiest intersection. He threw a switch and electricity jolted through a line to illuminate a lamp. That was the nation’s first electrical street light. California would lead the way in the following decades with the beginnings of today's grid starting with the world’s longest voltage power line. It was a promising start, but past decades have shown decay to the point where the grid could come crashing down in a high pressure situation. “We had 10 days of [power cutback] alerts, record breaking utilization on our grid -- went right up to the edge of breaking our grid but it didn’t,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a Clinton Global Initiative event in September.It was 1882 and Los Angeles Mayor Homer Toberman was excitedly standing next to a 150-foot power pole at the city’s busiest intersection. He threw a switch and electricity jolted through a line to illuminate a lamp. Check out our website: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/