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California survives hottest August without Flex Alerts
The gist
California survived its hottest August on record without issuing Flex Alerts or cutting power.
Battery storage built for the 4-to-9 p.m. peak is why the grid held.
How it unfolded
- 2019Under 700 megawatts of battery storage served the grid when Gov. Gavin Newsom took office, the California Energy Commission said.
- Aug 2020In the August 2020 heat wave, CAISO declared a Stage 3 emergency and hundreds of thousands of households lost power in rolling outages.
- 2022California has not issued a Flex Alert since 2022.