[dangrossman]

I am curious how a voluntary "please conserve power 4 hours a day during a historic heat wave" request turned into "CA is doing rolling blackouts because they don't have enough energy" in the minds of millions. Residential electric use doubled over the past 30 years without issue.

[ryantgtg]

The NYTimes The Daily podcast described the voluntary request as “the state asked people to not charge their EVs” (paraphrase). Poor quality information everywhere.

[anikom15]

Rolling blackouts are separate from Flex Alerts.

[dangrossman]

Hence me asking why they're being conflated in the public consciousness.

[anikom15]

Are they? Both of these things happen regularly in California and have been for decades.

[ryantgtg]

California is a big state. In Southern California, neither of those things happen regularly (source: I've lived here since 1980). The last time they did happen regularly was with Enron.