‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room
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#2> The company, which is facing $30 billion in liabilities from recent wildfires started by its equipment
Conspiracy theory (which is shared by everyone I've talked to): PG&E turned off the power to make a political statement that they shouldn't be liable for wildfires.
Edit: by "not be liable", I mean passing legislation to achieve this.
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#3> The company, which is facing $30 billion in liabilities from recent wildfires started by its equipment Conspiracy theory (which is shared by everyone I've talked to): PG&E turned off the power to make a political statement that they shouldn't be liable for wildfires. Edit: by "not be liable", I mean passing legislation to achieve this.
That is pointlessly over-dramatizing a clear and obvious fact. They went from risk tolerant to risk averse because the liability math changed. There's no conspiracy, its the simple difference between "not my problem" and "cover your ass".
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#4> The company, which is facing $30 billion in liabilities from recent wildfires started by its equipment Conspiracy theory (which is shared by everyone I've talked to): PG&E turned off the power to make a political statement that they shouldn't be liable for wildfires. Edit: by "not be liable", I mean passing legislation to achieve this.
That is pointlessly over-dramatizing a clear and obvious fact. They went from risk tolerant to risk averse because the liability math changed. There's no conspiracy, its the simple difference between "not my problem" and "cover your ass".
The liability math didn't change.
Decades of pretending that liability didn't exist just caught up with them.
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#5> The company, which is facing $30 billion in liabilities from recent wildfires started by its equipment Conspiracy theory (which is shared by everyone I've talked to): PG&E turned off the power to make a political statement that they shouldn't be liable for wildfires. Edit: by "not be liable", I mean passing legislation to achieve this.
That is pointlessly over-dramatizing a clear and obvious fact. They went from risk tolerant to risk averse because the liability math changed. There's no conspiracy, its the simple difference between "not my problem" and "cover your ass".
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#6The culmination of a decade of liberal progressive policies.
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#7IMHO finding problems with how PG&E handled this will be much like looking through your graphs and logs after an outage. When you go looking for trouble, you find it, but most of what you see, despite being true and bad, is just red-herrings and statistical noise. The real causal factors are systemic and so deeply baked in that its very important we find scape goats lest we have to come to grips with what a 2C future means to electrical distribution across a vast sprawl spread through rapidly drying forest.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is pointlessly over-dramatizing a clear and obvious fact. They went from risk tolerant to risk averse because the liability math changed. There's no conspiracy, its the simple difference between "not my problem" and "cover your ass".
The liability math didn't change. Decades of pretending that liability didn't exist just caught up with them.
the math changed because they were sued for something that should've been acceptable risk. So now it's unacceptable risk. What goes around, comes around.
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#9> The company, which is facing $30 billion in liabilities from recent wildfires started by its equipment Conspiracy theory (which is shared by everyone I've talked to): PG&E turned off the power to make a political statement that they shouldn't be liable for wildfires. Edit: by "not be liable", I mean passing legislation to achieve this.
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#10> The company, which is facing $30 billion in liabilities from recent wildfires started by its equipment Conspiracy theory (which is shared by everyone I've talked to): PG&E turned off the power to make a political statement that they shouldn't be liable for wildfires. Edit: by "not be liable", I mean passing legislation to achieve this.
That is pointlessly over-dramatizing a clear and obvious fact. They went from risk tolerant to risk averse because the liability math changed. There's no conspiracy, its the simple difference between "not my problem" and "cover your ass".
It's a well known business strategy, run something important into the ground, get bailed out, rinse and repeat. Many companies are run badly on purpose.