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Q&A: California's new electricity-blackout challenge

by AP Business Writer
| August 20, 2020 12:06 AM

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — As if the pandemic and economic recession weren't bad enough, millions of Californians now face recurring threats of abrupt blackouts during a heat wave in the nation's most populous state.

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