This is a pretty dishonest take. The power outages are critical to preventing wildfires, and the reason Silicon Valley and San Francisco are not affected is because that's not where the fire risk is. https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1187873178963628032 …
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Except lost economic output (2.5bil for the last big outage IIRC) and outage-related deaths don't go on PG&E's (bankrupt) books; wildfire liability does Not saying the numbers aren't still in favor, just make sure the accounting's complete
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There's also smoke-related illnesses and deaths on the other side of that ledger
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was choosing dividends over infrastructure "doing the right thing"?
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What infrastructure are you referring to specifically?
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Well, half of the right thing. The thing they're doing is right, but they should also be reorganizing to fix the maintenance plan. For them, that might mean chapter 11. If so, they seem to be stalling in hopes ignoring that problem will make it go away.
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This whole thing is basically a commercial for solar power with battery backup.
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It's sort of fun waiting patiently for someone to remember the CPUC. I mean, it's boring as hell because nobody has, yet. But it seems to be relevant here.
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At a guess, the CPUC either tacitly or on the record approved PG&E's amazing money saving invention, "deferred maintenance," on the grounds that passing on the true cost of operating a genuinely safe energy system to the consumers would have been political suicide.
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No. Absolutely not. PGE created this public safety crisis. The situation must be taken out of their hands NOW. The Kincade fire shows definitively they don’t have a clue. Bill Johnson’s $2.5m needs to go straight to the National Guard to hunt down faulty systems.
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