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So what happens when you guys get blackouts every summer?
California has not had summer blackouts in 20 years since Enron and other Texas energy companies did a criminal conspiracy to idle power plants and drive the price through the roof.
Texas still has summer and winter blackouts.
Literally the first result
https://gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/CalEMA::power-outage-incidents/explore?showTable=true
Those are local outages due to trees causing downed lines, squirrels getting into transformers, motor vehicle accidents, etc. They aren't the same as the blackouts like you get from an overloaded or strained power grid like they have in Texas.
You know what? If you believe that, you can continue believing it. Don't need any more.
Exactly, keep believing what you experienced for 20 years actually happened
Modern gas water heaters already have electronic ignition systems
I used to lose power multiple times a year but now that I moved to CA I think it’s happened once in like 10 years and they had it back on before I woke up. But I have municipal power so I don’t have to put up with PGE’s incompetence.
Also have an electric water heater. Works great so far though the noise was a bit surprising at first. The old one kept having the pilot go out so for me it’s more reliable, and was basically free with rebates. Probably will switch to electric heat soon, that’s the last gas hookup let in my house. Would love to completely sever ties with PGE.