SAN DIEGO — Amid humanity’s hottest-ever summer months, California, home of the hottest place on Earth, has enjoyed a relatively cool and stress-free energy supply. A test of the grid’s resolve may be in store this week, as the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) braces for triple-digit temperatures in the state’s inland valleys and deserts. Experts… Continue reading Summer has been no sweat for California’s increasingly green energy grid, but the hottest days may still lie ahead
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The view from above Lahaina shows an ashy ‘grid of misery’
The devastation seen from the air above the Maui town of Lahaina is striking, with blocks of burned down buildings — a heartbreak even as help arrived in the form of aid arrived. Even at 400 feet up above the town that once housed more than 12,000 people in West Maui, there was a smell… Continue reading The view from above Lahaina shows an ashy ‘grid of misery’