California leaders credit cellphone alert for sudden conservation

Power lines in Cathedral City, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022. Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday that emergency cellphone alerts the evening before that h...

September 9, 2022
1:08 AM

Power lines in Cathedral City, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022. Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday that emergency cellphone alerts the evening before that had urged Californians to conserve energy were instrumental in pulling the state's heat-strained power grid back from the brink. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times) ALEX WELSH

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