October November 2019 Issue
PROMOTING STANDBY POWER & COGENERATION TECHNOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS
Issue number 78
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COLOMBIA BUYS P80 ALTERNATORS IGSA from Mexico specified the premium alternators from Cummins Generator Technologies. Page 10 California Governor Gavin Newsom has called the state’s widespread electricity shutdown triggered by a power company to prevent wildfires - “unacceptable”, as gale-force winds and dry weather posed a critical fire threat to the north of California Pacific Gas and Electric Co (PG&E) imposed unprecedented shut-offs which left more than 730,000 homes and workplaces in northern California without power on the second day of planned outages. By Day 3 power had been restored to more than half of those who had lost it, PG&E officials said in a release. However, about 312,000 electric customers remained without power, officials said. Some of the state’s most devastating wildfires were sparked in recent years by damage to electrical transmission lines from high winds, with flames then spreading through tinder-dry vegetation to populated areas. Newsom told news reporters that he did not fault the utility for shutting off electricity as a safety measure, but he described the outage as too broad and said it resulted from years of
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mismanagement by the utility. “We’re seeing a scale and scope of something that no state in the 21st century should experience,” Newsom commented. “What’s happened is unacceptable and it’s happened because of neglect.” The remarks were the most pointed comments Newsom has directed at PG&E since the outages began early on October 9th. Among the questions he raised was whether the utility was too large, with a service area covering more than 40 counties. PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019, citing potential civil liabilities in excess of $30 billion from major wildfires linked to its transmission wires.
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PG&E Chief Executive Bill Johnson acknowledged that his company had left “millions of people” without a “fundamental service” they expect and deserve. As high winds moved south, a similar cut-off is underway by neighboring utility Southern California Edison, which warned that more than 173,000 customers could lose power in parts of eight counties, including Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Ventura. PG&E, California’s biggest investor-owned utility, has said that power would be restored to specific areas once up to 77 mph (124 kph) winds die down and 2,500 miles (4,025 km) of transmission lines could be inspected.
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Broad power shutdown to prevent fires was 'unacceptable' says California governor
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