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On a sunny day (Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:34:06 -0800) it happened john larkin
<jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote in <qflckjtb1s8ub2hke6q8vk82h0991qffvf@4ax.com>:

>On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:42:54 +0000, Martin Brown
><'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On 26/11/2024 03:15, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:55:35 +0000, Martin Brown
>>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>
>>>> There is some ageing nuclear still running and large scale biomass
>>>> greenwashed wood burning facilities like Drax (sounds like a Bond villain).
>>>>
>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160
>>> 
>>> Having electricity used to be normal.
>>
>>Most of the time we still do. But the final leg of the electricity 
>>distribution was sold off and the vulture capitalists found a cunning 
>>way to extract value by ceasing to do any preventative maintenance!
>
>The US "regulated monopoly" scheme, shareholder-owned companies with
>guaranted returns and  performance incentives, worked great for 100
>years, until the regulation got amped up (pun intended).
>
>The power here is very reliable. Sometimes something local, an old
>transformer or something, breaks, but they fix it fast. City-wide
>outages are very rare, basically unknown, between earthquakes.
>
>An old wood pole leaned over and broke on our block a couple weeks
>ago, and we lost power. An army of PG&E guys and trucks and heavy
>equipment moved in and installed a new pole in about 5 hours.
>
>The fix was amusing. I'll post a pic.

We have mostly underground cables here.
last power outage was 2 hours a year or so back, probably somebody cut a cable while digging.
We have wind, gas, solar.
My 250 Ah battery pack easily helped me passed the 2 hour break.
There are few second or rather few period interruptions every now and then all covered by my UPS
likely switches in the network that cause that.
We have gas too.
You do need electricity to run the has powered central heating though.
I do have enough solar cells to keep batteries full
things like fridge and cooking stuff running.
The solution to it all is: Diversity.