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by infamia 1345 days ago
California has had rolling outages for years and in 2020 they had a blackout that impacted hundreds of thousands of residents during a heatwave. The failure occurred a bit after dusk when solar stopped producing and other states didn't have as much power to send to California to make up he difference. All the information is in the link below. California's energy policy looks a lot like Germany's which is to heavily weight your grid towards renewables, call yourself green, and then prey your neighbors produce enough energy to keep your grid stable. All the information is in the link below. The governor of California enacted a state of emergency concerning power shortages and narrowly averted another grid failure last month, so I wouldn't say that their reliability is anywhere close to acceptable.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2020-10-...