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California tests off-the-grid solutions to power outages

by Daisy Nguyen
| July 1, 2021 12:09 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge of Yosemite National Park lost the only power line connecting it to the electrical grid.

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