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Lessons from San Diego’s planned blackouts

Hosted by Barbara Bogaev Oct. 18, 2019 California

The San Diego skyline at night. Photo credit: Jill Wellington/CC 2.0, via Pixabay

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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