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We had rolling outages in the Bay Area in Alameda at least. They did two circuits at a time instead of one too. https://twitter.com/alamedamunipwr/status/156732197303394304...

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Unless the official CalISO twitter account is lying, this could be a local issue for specific substations etc. With the weather there could be transformers overheating and failing, for example. In a large state, power goes out _somewhere_ quite often.

The bag of tricks CalISO has to lower demand at peak is fascinating - for example, there are large consumers with significant generation resources (like emergency generators) that sign in to turn the generators on and get off the grid for a couple of hours. This produces drops in demand without blackouts per-se. Distributed power generation is generally more resilient.

Seems to have been directed by CAISO for both Palo Alto and Alameda:

https://twitter.com/nukebarbarian/status/1567358316174622720

Thanks. Interesting, indeed. Maybe they're using different terminology; otherwise it's not clear how both Caiso and these local utilities can be truthful at the same time.

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