OVERLOOKING PHANTOM LOADS

Critical Loads Panel: Power Resilience Redefined

It's 8 PM during California's 2023 wildfire season. A hospital's backup generators roar to life... only to overload and fail within 17 minutes. Why? Their 1980s-era load panel couldn't prioritize MRI machines over cafeteria microwaves. This isn't hypothetical—it's adapted from last month's Sacramento Bee report.