Across northern and central California, customers experience thousands of power outages a year due to new power line settings designed to prevent wildfires. With support from the Fund, Emma Foehringer Merchant and Maria Parazo Rose conducted a first-of-its-kind analysis of data on so-called “fast-trip” outages and found that they’ve increased over time and are often […] The post Grantee data analysis finds that unreliable power has become the norm in rural California appeared first on The Fund for Investigative Journalism.