Californians should recognize that the policies their elected officials have instituted in recent years, such as the zero-emissions mandate and the insurance nonrenewal prohibition, will make electricity delivery less certain and fire damage more certain in the future.
Source: California’s Power Problems Are Self-Inflicted - Foundation for Economic Education
California's recent electricity reliability issues demonstrate the problems with government regulated monopolies. Some, of course, will work better than others but all run into the problems of lack of innovation and true accountability, not to mention prices that are far higher than necessary. Things like rolling blackouts and the necessity to shut down the power grid for safety reasons in sub-hurricane force winds sounds more like conditions you would hear about in the former Soviet Union, but no, it's just California...