San Diego County\u00a0is facing unprecedented extreme temperatures. Residents are flocking to coastal beaches just to escape the intense heat, with locals noting that coastal areas feel even hotter than the desert.<\/p>\n
Power Grid Strained\u00a0<\/p>\n
The unrelenting heat wave is putting severe pressure on the local electrical system.\u00a0SDG&E\u00a0is actively asking residents to conserve electricity immediately to help ease demand on the grid.<\/p>\n
Power Shutoffs Halted\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is a sigh of relief for customers.\u00a0According to reporting partner 10 News, SDG&E has confirmed that no Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) are currently planned.<\/p>\n
This brings welcome news to areas like Descanso, which lost electricity last week due to preventative wildfire risk measures.<\/p>\n
35,000 Customers Cleared\u00a0<\/p>\n
At one point, the utility warned approximately\u00a035,000 customers\u00a0that their electricity could be cut for safety. However, SDG&E announced that residents are no longer at risk of those planned service interruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego County\u00a0is facing unprecedented extreme temperatures. Residents are flocking to coastal beaches just to escape the intense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19931,66938,23,100,4840,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-487680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-heat-wave","tag-kogo-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-power","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487680","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=487680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}