On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:37 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:

Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison have started Public
Safety Power Shut-offs (PSPS) in California wildfire high-risk areas.

Wasn't California in a similar mess 20 years ago when government regulation at the time also put PG&E in the position that they couldn't deliver the electricity their customers wanted? Something to do with hard limits on what PG&E could do but few limits on what third parties could do to it.