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California. What a freakin joke.
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Just days after passing a ban on all new gas vehicles starting in 2035, California has had to ask their Tesla and other electric vehicle owners to stop plugging their cars in because they can't spare the electricity.
Labor Day Weekend In California: 'Hold Off On Charging Electric Vehicles From 4 to 9 PM'
That's just the beginning. Wait until California's ban on buying new gasoline-powered cars goes into effect in ten years or so.
Actually, the bans start sooner than that:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/califor...red-cars-2035/
The regulation will operate in phases, with the amount of gas-powered vehicles on the road decreasing over time. Thirty five percent of new passenger vehicles sold would need to be powered by batteries or hydrogen in 2026, 51% by 2028, 68% by 2030, and 100% by 2035. In addition to these targets for regular passenger cars, the plan outlines a goal to have zero-emission medium and heavy-duty vehicles by 2045.
That's weird. I lived in California during the Enron era of rolling blackouts, and I never felt so pinched that I could not turn on the TV.
I was in Cal at the time too. I remember the TV not being a problem. However, the traffic lights along 19th Ave in San Francisco stopped working. And there were those trapped inside the Stonestown Galleria for hours after the doors wouldn't open.
I was in Cal at the time too. I remember the TV not being a problem. However, the traffic lights along 19th Ave in San Francisco stopped working. And there were those trapped inside the Stonestown Galleria for hours after the doors wouldn't open.
We had the good luck of living in a house on the same circuit (I'm not sure that's the right term, but I'm going with it) as the local fire station. Emergency facilities were exempt from the rolling blackouts, so we were never cut off. It was an interesting time.
Right now it is 100+ outside, and I"m in Starbucks using their AC and wifi. This is SOP this time of year.
I came here on my electric bike.
It is roughly 5 miles here and 10 miles round trip unless I take other excursions shopping.
The only E-vehicle I have is the bike and if the need is greater than lite shopping I take my truck.
They have been working on the grid the last month and only had a day or so with the power off but only during the night 10m to 6:am, no big deal. I am on battery, solar, and a small windmill, so I'm never without lights which are 12-volt LED.
I have been promoting the power wall idea for 30 years long before tesla, even before I had solar, simply because I was protecting my computer from spikes and brownouts while living in the mountains on a very low income.
Most people it seems, are too lazy or cheap to make the investment into batteries and wire and LED lighting. and they rather pay for new computers when the power goes out or spikes.
In SoCal the snowpack is all about the Sierra. Thankfully, SD has a Desalination plant in Carlsbad. Expensive water, but an endless source assuming we can decrease costs to desalinate in the future. (Build a nuclear plant or two??)
Bolded for the humor.
CA energy policy is no place for common sense and rational decision making.
Heck, they're just now in a panic trying to avert shutting them down after realizing a year after being told by their power board that they're going to be short power generation and then proceeded to green light shutting off 8-10% of the states base power load.
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m to 6:am, no big deal. I am on battery, solar, and a small windmill, so I'm never without lights which are 12-volt LED. 
