California calls for power conservation in heat
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California's power grid manager on Wednesday called the first "Stage 1 power emergency" of 2007 that calls for voluntary electricity conservation because of high demand linked to searingly hot weather.
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The governor sent in the National Guard to evacuate people from their sweltering homes and utility crews raced to restore electricity Thursday after storms knocked out power to nearly half a million St. Louis-area homes and businesses in the middle of a searing heat wave that has killed at least 17 people across the country.
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Sweltering heat was blamed Sunday for at least three deaths in Northern California, including a resident at a nursing home who died after the facility's air conditioning system failed.
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Temperatures headed back toward triple digits Monday, the seventh day of a heat wave that has contributed to blackouts leaving thousands without air conditioning.
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About 64,000 customers of Southern California's three biggest utilities were without power late Tuesday morning as a heat wave extended to its seventh day, the utilities said.
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California again urged customers to conserve power as businesses reopened, after the U.S. Independence Day holiday, on Thursday, the third day of the first big heat wave of the summer to hit the West.
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Longer and more intense heat waves throughout California in the decades ahead will lead to more heat-related deaths in several major cities, according to a new report.
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California should try to add solar energy systems to 1 million homes by 2017 to save electricity and cut pollution from power plants, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Friday.
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Triple digit temperatures smashed records across California Saturday, straining thermometers and air conditioners and prompting dozens of scattered electricity outages that left residents sizzling.
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Cooking the public for the public good Californians will be forced to break out in a sweat whether they like it or not as part of an energy efficiency plan being considered by the state government.â¦
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A heat wave swept southern  California for a sixth day on Sunday, claiming the lives of an  elderly couple, setting record temperatures and leaving  thousands of customers without power.
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A sweltering heat wave lingering over  the U.S. Northeast was expected to boost power consumption to  record levels for the second day in a row on Wednesday.
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A utility worker was electrocuted Tuesday and another severely burned as crews tried to restore power to more than 150,000 homes and businesses that have been without air conditioning for nearly a week.
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Consumers are being urged to implement more energy saving moves in the fight against global warming.
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Hot weather and high air-conditioning use in California on Thursday will likely cause the state's power grid manager to call a "Stage 2 power emergency," which causes mandatory electricity use cuts to come business customers, the grid manager said.
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Cooler temperatures and higher humidity helped firefighters Monday as they got closer to fully containing one of the largest wildfires in California history.
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U.S. East Coast power grid operators  said they had enough electricity to keep air conditioners  running Tuesday as a heat wave continued to grip the region.