California’s Power Outage Crisis | Los Angeles News

New research reveals weather and natural disasters are the top causes of U.S. power outages over two decades, but California shocks with the most events—493 total, impacting 32 million people averaging 41 hours without power—and surprisingly, physical attacks and vandalism, not weather, led its blackouts. The worst year for California was 2022, with 69 events peaking in July, December, and August. Nationwide, 2022 also saw the highest outage volume affecting 13 million customers, while states like Texas, Washington, Michigan, and New York followed closely—with Alaska reporting zero significant outages. The data underscores a grid under pressure from both nature and human interference. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/f4d26571eafcc927 Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Los Angeles News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews