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by Agustus 2107 days ago
This is a good use of twitter to apply engineering and figure out issues. The problem is that PG&E’s incentives are significantly misaligned to not be successful:

1. Crazy renewable edicts that do not have base power assumptions (see blackouts over summer).

2. Maintenance programs that are not overseen by a third part. This story. Please read just to see the sheering off of the c hook and the fact it might have been 100 years old!

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Even more so that they did something to fix the hole but apparently not the hook.