Politics & Government

Poll: Are You Confident SDG&E Can Avoid Another Major Blackout?

Federal report urges fixes, and utility president agrees—but deflects blame for the outage.

A federal report on the September 2011 blackout found “grid operators’ lack of adequate real-time situational awareness of conditions throughout the Western Interconnection.” Two agencies called for “more effective review and use of information.” SDG&E President Mike Niggli on Tuesday said his utility would expedite the recommended fixes in planning and coordination with other utilities but deflected blame—saying his company’s system “operated the way it was designed and should have.”  Are you confident a massive outage won’t happen again?


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