[bpeebles]

Looked like no blackouts were needed yet.[0]

> California ISO power grid peak demand hit 52,061 MW, a new all-time record. Still holding in EEA3 - no load shed. Conservation is making a difference. ow.ly/brMu50KBKHT

0. https://twitter.com/California_ISO/status/156733473761784627...

[spacedcowboy]

There may be no rolling blackouts needed, but at least part of that is because of the involuntary ones. There's a lot of red (>5000 people) and orange (1000-5000 people) in the current map [1]

[1] https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/

[mdeeks]

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...

[eliben]

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.

[ctchocula]

Anecdata: I personally know 2 people in South Bay that lost power 2 hours ago.

[nice2meetu]

Ours has been out for about 5 hours now. Also South Bay. :-(