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KPBS Midday EditionAs Mayor Kevin Faulconer gets close to signing a new deal with a private company, activists push for “municipalization,” which means the city takes over the power grid. -
San Diego Gas & Electric has set aside $250,000 in shareholder funding to match donations that help support local teachers with distance learning and with STEM projects. -
Advocates gathered at the now-infamous 101 Ash St. property Friday and said city leaders are about to make another bad deal with San Diego Gas & Electric. -
The Gateway Energy Storage project — currently operating at 230 megawatts and scheduled to reach 250 MW by the end of the month — follows another LS Power battery project in Vista. -
California staved off another round of rolling blackouts as a searing heat wave strained its electrical grid, but authorities warned of a continuing threat Wednesday. -
When outages occur will depend on how well customers conserve energy. Which neighborhoods would be impacted first depends on how high they are on San Diego Gas & Electric's list. -
KPBS Midday EditionCalifornia's power grid managers are under fire after calling for the first rolling blackouts since 2001. -
Widespread blackouts to reduce pressure on the electric grid were averted Monday night after regulators warned earlier in the day that they would not have enough power to meet demand in the midst of a heat wave. -
KPBS Midday EditionCalifornia's governor wants to know why the state power grid managers were forced to initiate rolling blackouts as a heatwave bakes the state. -
KPBS Midday EditionAn irate California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an emergency proclamation allowing some energy users and utilities to tap backup energy sources amid a days-long heatwave that has prompted rolling blackouts affecting hundreds of thousands of households.
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