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Puerto Rico’s power crisis

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California Power Outages

California hasn't seen outages like in Texas and Puerto Rico but does have power grid problems. Mainly for California it's in the summer where they're dealing with periods of extreme heat but not just heat but wildfire. The concern is that people use a lot more electricity when they're switching on their air conditioners running power to all these remote areas in the state you know through these power lines that can actually trigger fires.

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