Energy crisis of California

NERGY CRISIS IN CALIFORNIA If we try to explain what happened in California,In the simplest terms, the companies supplying electricity to California failed to provide enough affordable power to the state's utilities to meet the demands of customers. The reason for this is hotly disputed. One thing is certain: Unscheduled outages at power plants supplying California's electricity increased 461 percent since deregulation. Owners of the plants now face allegations that they intentionally engineered shutdowns in …

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