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How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
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Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Feb 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It Means for America’s Power Grid with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The book tells the fascinating story of how declining performance at an electrical utility eventually led to wildfires and staggering loss of human life. Blunt and Vinsel also talk about what this story means for the future of electricity utilities in the face of global climate change.
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Released:
Feb 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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