California Gov. Gavin Newsom demands an investigation of power blackouts.
Newsom also sent a letter demanding that the state energy commission, state public utilities commission and the California Independent System Operator investigate broad energy blackouts over two days last week that he said occurred without prior warning or enough time to prepare.
Newsom said he was not informed until moments before the blackouts started and that the failure to anticipate and protect against the service disruptions was "unacceptable and unbefitting" of California. The unusually hot weather overwhelmed the state's electrical grid, prompting the California Independent System Operator, which runs the grid, to warn of another electricity supply shortage Sunday, though that one was averted.
The ISO instituted a second, but shorter, rolling outage Saturday evening that cut power to more than 200,000 customers.
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