Patricia K. Poppe Tells How California Uses Technology To Manage Strains on the State-Wide Energy System

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POPPE: "The state took a very aggressive action to send out an emergency text message to all the California cellphones, and instantaneously, 2,500 megawatts came off the system. We watched the load curve drop with a straight line, which told me and reaffirmed a hypothesis that I have that demand management with modern technology can be automated. We shouldn’t have to send a text message. It worked."