The best thing our customers can do to help prevent going into that stage iii category is to conserve as much energy as possible. You heard it right there, conserve energy. That is going to be the motto during this heatwave we are all dealing with across the bay area. Tonights power emergency is over for now after a series of rolling outages around Northern California this evening that helped stabilize the grid. This started around 6 30 with an order from kauai so. The independent system operator manages the states power grid and it told utilities, like pg e, to shed powerlines because of unusually high demand. Pg e explained in a tweet saying there was strain on the power grid due to excess heat. Pg e began rotating Power Outages at the direction of the state grid operator. 200 to 250,000 customers were affected for about an hour each. This map is from pg es web shot. It shows a snapshot of the situation at 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more, the orange dots
Get out of the committee, but Affordable Housing advocates say they arent giving up the fight. They are now considering a statewide ballot initiative. In san jose, devin fehely, kpix5. Thanks. Kpix5s da lin continues our coverage from alameda where one familys resident just skyrocketed from 1,500 a month to 3,500. Reporter allen, this is the condo right here. Surprisingly the tenant says hes actually okay with the 2,000 rent increase. He just asked the owner to spread out that increase over three years, which the owner says no and now the city of alameda is stepping in. Its a modest three bedroom condo on Bay Farm Island in alameda. Nick pevar, his wife and son have lived in the condo for seven years. Its insane. Reporter nick doesnt want to show his face but said his family is devastated by the 2,000 rent increase. My plans are destroyed. The financial situation is destroyed. Reporter his previous rent was 1,500 a month. The landlord increased it to 3,500 in december. I had to cancel
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