Originally Posted by Rochard

Here in California we have a problem where they are going to be shutting down a lot of power plants ahead of time. About a decade ago - maybe longer - our power companies could not produce enough power for the entire state so we had "brown outs"... Which is when they limited how much power you could use. It was strange - you would walk into a department store and two thirds of their lights would be off. So since then they've built a lot of power plants to make sure it never happens again.... Now people are putting solar on their houses and businesses and power consumption is dropping down. All of these power plants are not needed, and will never be needed.