Rolling Black-Outs in California

Lots to react to from the rolling blackouts that California experienced, but my two (actually three) cents worth are as follows:

1) I view the current electricity grid "firestorm" in California as being decoupled from the increased reliance upon renewable energy. Most of the past few years' wildfires appear to have been started by high winds impacting vegetation and electrical infrastructure which are too close together.

2) I wish more effort was being spent on decarbonization initiatives than I see spent on arguments around why we need to prolong the use of fossil fuels. Slowing down global warming (which is about the best we can do at this point) is a long game and not one that can or should be impacted by short term or opportunistic motives.

3) The electricity grid we had yesterday is not the grid we have today and won't be the grid we have tomorrow. In fact, trends towards distributed energy resources have some experts casting the "electricity grid" as a Christmas Tree upon which we hang distributed energy resources. It has taken only one generation to make the historic telecommunications landline system obsolete. I believe similar changes to the electricity grid are likely.