Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Lessons from San Diego’s planned blackouts

Fires ravaged San Diego in 2007, and scheduled power shut-offs caused chaos. Since then, the city has made improvements to their power grid and their scheduled outage procedures. What can San Diego teach the rest of California’s utilities?

By Barbara Bogaev • Oct 18, 2019 • 50m Listen

Fires ravaged San Diego in 2007, and scheduled power shut-offs caused chaos. Since then, the city has made improvements to their power grid and their scheduled outage procedures. What can San Diego teach the rest of California’s utilities?

Barbara Bogaev
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Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Lessons from San Diego’s planned blackouts

Fires ravaged San Diego in 2007, and scheduled power shut-offs caused chaos. Since then, the city has made improvements to their power grid and their scheduled outage procedures. What can San Diego teach the rest of California’s utilities?

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Lessons from San Diego’s planned blackouts

Fires ravaged San Diego in 2007, and scheduled power shut-offs caused chaos. Since then, the city has made improvements to their power grid and their scheduled outage procedures. What can San Diego teach the rest of California’s utilities?

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