RE:Official explanation of rolling blackouts in CaliforniaLmao. Yasch, that isn't even supported in the report... Caiso has been the canary for a while and have been desperately trying to secure imports from Idaho, Oregon and Washingon. When those guys can't export because of internal needs... California goes brown. From the report... there are multiple sections talking about the technicals With the increase of use-limited resources such as solar generation in recent years, however, this is no longer the case. Today, the single critical period of peak demand is giving way to multiple critical periods during the day including the net demand peak, which is the peak of load net of solar and wind generation resources. The RA program has also tried to adjust for this change in resource mix by identifying reliability problems now seen later in the day by simulating each hour of the day, not just peak, and identifying the risk of lost firm load called Loss of Load Expectation (LOLE). The evaluation of wind and solar generation in particular are evaluated on its Effective Load Carrying Capability (ELCC)