California summer reliability rules driving utility fossil fuel plans, groups say in challenging CPUC – The CPUC’s February decision directing utilities to contract additional capacity for the summer months is one in a series of strategies to support the grid during possible extreme weather conditions. Last year, a combination of factors, including a record-breaking heatwave, pushed the California Independent System Operator to initiate rolling blackouts for the first time in two decades, affecting hundreds of thousands of customers and prompting an inter-agency analysis into what went wrong. Utility Dive 3/15/21
