The threat of rolling blackouts for years to come is the reality that California is forced to come to terms with. Record-breaking heat waves this past summer brought California’s power grid to the brink of collapse. In Governor Gavin Newsom’s telling, the state’s efforts to bolster renewable energy helped it keep the lights on while going right to the edge of breaking the electric grid. Despite adding new power plants, installing huge battery storage systems, and restarting some shuttered fossil fuel generators, California still heavily relies on energy from other states.