this is partial information.. the internals for the electrical grid were so solid, for so long.. then came the crack in the dam -- de-regulation.. while Happy Episcopalians in San Francisco planned their PC Green Energy sourcing, aggressive Texans built ENRON. Once there is so much money on the table, every day, the crack in the dam is hard to patch. Today there are now many fingers in the pie, and terrible incentives all the way down.

I have heard wise-guy finance say with a knowing look, that the "electrical infrastructure will be redesigned, and redesigned again." I believe them because, there is money to be made at each step. Repair of the forests and streams are the poverty work, not new electrical grid configurations, in California.

It is not the right time to throw the solid parts of the grid under the bus, and downplay the functional parts of the past, while pining for the workable future. A plea here (including present writer) to investigate and use fact-based analysis.

> "We in California"

I'm on Silicon Valley Power. None of those issues apply. PG&E needs more than a slap in the wrist.

It's not generation that's the problem, it's the wires that move the electricity from generation to where it's needed. It will take decades to upgrade all the wires to support electrification of all light vehicles.