As California Burns, Customers Flock to Batteries and Solar

Power outages in the fire-prone state could mean big business for rooftop solar and storage systems

Kate Wheeling
OneZero
Published in
6 min readOct 14, 2019

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A car drives passed a power station in Mill Valley, California as a statewide blackout continues on October, 10, 2019.
Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty

LLast week, large swaths of northern California went dark as the state’s largest utility cut power to hundreds of thousands of its customers. It was Pacific Gas & Electric’s third deliberate outage in…

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Kate Wheeling
OneZero

freelance environmental journalist. @katewheeling