An energy crisis in 2001 led to rolling blackouts, soaring power rates, and the importation of electricity from neighboring states. Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric Company came under heavy criticism.[131] 【参考译文】2001 年的能源危机导致轮流停电、电价飙升以及从邻国进口电力。
根据第一段中“Rolling electric power blackouts afflicted roughly 2 million California residents in August, 2020 as a heat wave gripped the Golden State.”(2020年8月,一股热浪席卷加州,约200万加州居民遭遇轮流停电。)说明民遭遇轮流停电。以及“Yet data showed that power demand peaks just before the ...
California Suffers Rolling Blackouts For First Time in More Than a Month.Reports on a series of power blackouts suffered by California on May 7, 2001.Wall Street Journal - Eastern EditionWartzmanRickSmithRebecca
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s primary power grid manager approved plans Wednesday aimed at averting a repeat of the blackouts that rolled across parts of the state in August during a punishing heat wave.
California's hurricane-strength gusts and latest blackouts are yet another stark reminder of the Golden State's battle with Mother Nature. Just two months after a summer heat wave prompted the region's first rolling blackouts in almost two decades, the state's largest utility has cut power agai...
the state expects rolling blackouts to continue until utilities can increase the power supply or buy more power from outside sources. In this edition ofHowStuffWorks, we will take a look at one of the worst energy crises in American history, what caused it and how it might spill over into ...
9many cities have developed heat emergency response plans. These response plans use information on risk factors and meteorologic information to implement prevention strategies that reduce morbidity and mortality from excessive heat.1A heat response plan also should address rolling energy blackouts in areas...
In a concerted effort to prevent utility equipment in the drier rural and suburban areas from overheating and spontaneously igniting wildfires, utility companies opted to use rolling blackouts to keep the grid cool in high wind situations, leaving millions without power, sometimes for days at a time...
On Tuesday, as air conditioners whirred amid the stifling heat, California set a record for power consumption and authorities nearly instituted rolling blackouts when the electrical grid capacity was at its breaking point. Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the la...
If, for the next few hours, we don’t all turn off everything short of the AC then we are looking at rolling outages and blackouts. I turn out the lights, leave my washing and cooking to later, light a few of the professor’s devotional candles and get back to Mike and Ecology of...