Corporations will have to supply backup energy all the way through PSPS outages
By way of Jesse Kathan, Correspondent
On Oct. 26, 2019, Peni Corridor’s air conditioner all at once clicked off. So did the whole thing else.
She and different citizens of her Berkeley senior housing advanced spent the night in a shaded out of doors courtyard. A lot of her upstairs neighbors who depend on elevators have been not able to depart their ground. Because the hours wore on, Corridor anxious in regards to the battery draining on her electrical wheelchair. She cushioned her refrigerated drugs with icepacks and waited.
Corridor is one in every of loads of hundreds of Bay House citizens who skilled PG&E’s Public Protection Energy Shutoff, or PSPS, used to stop its apparatus from sparking wildfires. In step with research from the Public Advocates Place of work of the California...
