George P. Radanovich: “Oh, there are. When a rolling blackout happens, unless you are in a district near a hospital somewhere, then you are not…”

“Oh, there are. When a rolling blackout happens, unless you are in a district near a hospital somewhere, then you are not protected. And even in that case, you are not protected from some medical emergencies. We had an ophthalmologist, who was doing cataract surgery, in the middle of cataract surgery when the lights went out and they struggled around for about 30 to 60 seconds before they could get their private generators going. The gentleman can imagine, if you are in the chair and you are getting cataract surgery, I assume that you are awake during this whole time, and all of a sudden the power goes out on you. We also have one of the largest plate glass manufacturing plants if the country. There are about four of them all over the place that use enormous amounts of energy and, of course, in order to make glass, you have to heat it up to where it becomes molten and then it goes through a lot of sophisticated equipment before it comes out as plate glass. When you have a power outage for 8 hours, all of that molten stuff freezes up inside all of that sophisticated machinery and you lose every bit of it. So these companies in California have been scrambling to make sure that they have an alternative energy supply to click on real fast once we do get a blackout. This generally makes us more reliant on power sources that are not necessarily energy efficient and environmentally efficient.”