{"id":458773,"date":"2026-09-10T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458773\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:32:09","slug":"oppressive-heat-strains-la-power-grid-dwp-asks-angelenos-to-cut-power-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458773\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Oppressive&#8217; Heat Strains LA Power Grid, DWP Asks Angelenos To Cut Power Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People can also spend time at a cooling center to reduce their reliance on home air conditioning, DWP said.<\/p>\n<p>The request comes after past heat waves have caused widespread electricity disruptions in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California.<\/p>\n<p>During a prolonged September 2024 heat wave, over 130,000 DWP customers lost power for a period before electricity was restored, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/socal-customers-regaining-power-after-losing-electricity-during-heat-wave\/15287703\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC 7 reported at the time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LADWP officials said extreme heat can cause electrical equipment to overheat, particularly when high overnight temperatures prevent equipment from cooling down, according to the station.<\/p>\n<p>Those outages were different from the controlled rolling blackouts California experienced during an August 2020 heat wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People can also spend time at a cooling center to reduce their reliance on home air conditioning, DWP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-458773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}