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Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’

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Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’
A bicyclist rides passed high-tension power lines in Mill Valley, California as a statewide blackout continues on Oct., 10, 2019. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Robert Bryce
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Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability—and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.
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Robert Bryce
Robert Bryce
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Robert Bryce is the host of the “Power Hungry Podcast,” executive producer of the documentary, “Juice: How Electricity Explains the World,” and the author of six books, including most recently, “A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations.”
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