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  • 8 - Revamping Public Energy

  • Edited by Ganesh Sitaraman, Anne Alstott
  • Book:
    Politics, Policy, and Public Options
    Published online:
    11 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 134-152
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    As unusually strong Santa Ana winds whipped through California in fall 2019, the state’s utilities faced a bind: cut power for millions, or risk their transmission infrastructure sparking another devastating and deadly fire? In the end, both occurred, and California was alternately ablaze and in the dark throughout the fall. This impossible predicament was, many said, a harbinger of things to come: climate change exposing the precarity of seemingly advanced economies, as centuries of fossil fuel emissions reveal their bite.