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Gavin Newsom: “It's allowed us not to have a flex alert in four years.”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Governor Newsom announces new savings for California car buyers and major clean energy milestone

Published | Video Starts at 17:04

What has that Done. Now we are the second largest installed utility scale battery storage in the world, China and California. But It's allowed us not to have a flex alert in four years. You remember the days in 2019-2020-2021-2020, 2022. I think we had 11 Flex alerts, not one in the last four years. We're on the other side of this. (17:04–17:08)

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Asserts that battery storage has prevented flex alerts in California for four years.

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