SAN FRANCISCO - California’s largest utility planned to decide Wednesday whether to black out some half-million customers as dangerous fire weather returns to California. The outages will last about 48 hours, the utility said. Meanwhile, Southern California Edison said it could cut power Thursday to about 132,000 customers in six counties — around 300,000 people. Edison announced possible outages in Kern, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. “Of course, none of us wants the devastation” of a wildfire, Sanders said, “but I think the measures that PG&E is taking are to the ultimate extreme.”California Gov.

Source: thestar October 23, 2019 05:15 UTC