It's just not there for California this year. It's sorely missed. This is the weird one. It may be cold now, but it was 109 degrees in northern California this summer. It's not supposed to get that hot in San Francisco, ever.
Climate change is a genuinely new, freaky area for utilities.
This is a winter blackout, but in winter, California can cruise by on a mere 33,000 megawatts. Summers require a whopping 47,000 megawatts, and summers with crazy greenhouse heat spikes are off the scale. Energy networks just plain break when you run heavy loads in crazy heat. Right now, California has 10,000 megawatts of its capacity up for repair. This is unlucky 13, the grand finale.