California’s Power Crisis

I maintain this topic as a separate section because politicians and policy analysts are prone to forget what happened in California around the turn of the current century. The power crisis then was a man-made catastrophe that is still playing out nearly a quarter centry later. For example, NRG, one of the utilities involved in the scandal, was force to install hundreds of electric vehicle charge stations across the sate as part of its long-overdue settlement with the state of California. Though NRG is no longer involved, that network of stations is now EVgo and an important EV charging network nationwide.

What happened then still haunts California politicians and its regulatory agencies.