The Coming California Blackouts Argue for Securing the Grid Now

Pacific Gas and Electric has acknowledged that its wind-whipped power lines last year caused the Camp Fire, the deadliest in California’s history. Taken together with other recent wildfires, the utility has incurred some $30 billion in claims, prompting it to declare bankruptcy.

In the hope of avoiding further losses this summer, the company has just announced that – if similar conditions arise – it will turn off the power, rather than risk sparking another disastrous conflagration.

The trouble is that the ensuing, possibly protracted blackout would likely put at risk millions of Americans, many of them perhaps mortally so due to a lack of water, food, medication, transportation and communications for days, if not weeks, on end.

President Trump has called for the nation’s electric grid to be protected against these and other dangers. There can be no higher priority.

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