You don’t think that this is planned? (From a text conversation)
PG&E power outages.
Planned or unplanned?
Following a grand scheme to get people on “micro-grids”, so their use can be curtailed at will?
You don’t need all that power for your 3D printer or hydroponic system. You don’t need all that excess power, it isn’t required.
PG&E gets to get out of the volatile utilities and yet still provide a service, building and servicing all these micro grids on contract, the .Gov gets to control your expenditure of voltage and everyone is green whether or not they wanted to be.
Oh yeah, they get rid of a bunch of dead underbrush that couldn’t be dealt with otherwise.