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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If there are a few more big fires caused by electrical distribution, perhaps people will demand that utilities facilitate microgrids? <br><br><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/la-county-pasadena-sierra-madre-sue-socal-edison-eaton-fire/story?id=119485447">https://abcnews.go.com/US/la-county-pasadena-sierra-madre-sue-socal-edison-eaton-fire/story?id=119485447</a><br><a href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/wildfires-pushed-pge-into-bankruptcy-should-other-utilities-be-worried/588435/">https://www.utilitydive.com/news/wildfires-pushed-pge-into-bankruptcy-should-other-utilities-be-worried/588435/</a><br><br>PG&E has been busy undergrounding major lines. Of course, they and the CPUC have customers foot the bill after their bankruptcy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Marcus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of steve smith <sasmyth@swcp.com><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM<br><b>To: </b>friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] From Merle<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On 3/6/25 9:35 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Another reason to go solar and have storage at home. Lots of sunny days in Santa Fe -- at least when there isn’t smoke from the fires. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p>I'm a big fan of a (more) distributed grid... today the duststorms and the pilups of tumbleweeds would have been a problem as well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>