Business | PG&E’s CEO wants electric vehicles to save California’s power grid By Bloomberg August 8, 2023 at 10:59 a.m. California’s largest utility, is pushing General Motors Co. to expand on a pilot program from...
Technology | Here’s how California’s electric cars can feed the grid and help avoid brownouts By CALmatters July 20, 2023 at 3:30 p.m. Through bidirectional charging, owners of electric cars can sell energy to the grid or use...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Environment | Massive snowpack’s summer bonus: Clean, cheap electricity for California By Paul Rogers May 9, 2023 at 9:42 a.m. Full California reservoirs mean a big boost in hydropower, a major change from recent drought...
Crime and Public Safety | DWP worker in intensive care after injury while trying to restore power By City News Service February 26, 2023 at 11:32 p.m. Since the start of the storm Friday, crews restored power to more than 127,000 customers,...
Crime and Public Safety | New Year’s Day power outage in Laguna Beach affects hundreds of homes By Erika I. Ritchie January 1, 2023 at 6:50 p.m. The outage was first reported to Southern California Edison officials at around 1:30 p.m.
Crime and Public Safety | Power is shut off on windy Thanksgiving Day in parts of Riverside County By Allyson Vergara November 24, 2022 at 7:01 p.m. The elevated fire danger is expected to last until 6 p.m., though power restoration could...
California News | Redondo Beach’s gas-fired power plant has its day in the sun — but it can’t stand the heat By Associated Press September 8, 2022 at 3:57 p.m. A record heat wave put California in a fossil fuel conundrum: The state has had...
California News | A text alert may have saved California from power blackouts By Bloomberg September 7, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. A timely mobile alert may have prevented hundreds of thousands of Californians from being plunged...
Crime and Public Safety | Power outage hits 3,000 homes in Laguna Beach By Kristy Hutchings September 5, 2022 at 5:38 p.m. Edison's media relations adviser said the cause of the outage is currently under investigation.
Business | Vast stretch of US at risk of summer blackouts, regulator warns By Bloomberg May 18, 2022 at 11:46 a.m. California’s grid operators have warned that the state faces a risk of blackouts during the...