BREAKING: State urges Californians to conserve energy immediately or face possible rotating power outages
Tuesday marks the seventh consecutive day operators of California's power grid called for a statewide voluntary conservation of electricity as demand reaches record levels.
"Outages are a significant inconvenience to those affected, but it's preferable to manage emergencies in a controlled manner rather than let it cause a wider spread, longer lasting disruption," Cal ISO said in a news release. "Power interruptions are kept as brief as possible and utilities rotate them through their customer base so that no one area has prolonged outages."
"This is about to get significantly more intense," said Elliot Mainzer, president and chief executive officer of the California Independent System Operator, on Monday. They have since requested use of backup generators in Roseville and Yuba City. Officials say in total, those generators can provide up to 120 megawatts of electricity to the grid, which is enough to power 120,000 homes.
But keeping the lights on will also require Californians to continue conserving as they have been, even as temperatures rise. Most of California's 39 million people are facing extremely hot weather.
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