Covid Is Making It Harder for California to Avert Blackouts
- The pandemic has changed the way people use electricity
- There’s no precedent for combination of heat and energy use
Transmission towers in Crockett, California.
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California is scrambling to prevent yet another round of rolling blackouts this weekend as heat strains the grid.
The pandemic is making that task harder than ever before.