如果硅谷再一次停电，人们就不能去办公室“避难”了

根据美国干旱监测机构6月2日的一项评估显示，目前，加州近50%的地区陷入干旱，其中北部为最干旱的地区。根据爱达荷州国家机构间消防中心的说法，这是一个“高于正常水平的重大火灾隐患”。
今年，该州已经有6600多英亩土地被烧毁；几乎每天都有小火苗冒出来。加州政府、公用事业公司都想要努力在野火季节来临之前找到方法应对停电，将威胁降到最低。

因为如果今年再次陷入断电风波，此时公司关闭，没有了公司提供的备用电力支持，疫情期间在家办公的员工可能会经历持续数天的停电导致无法工作，而且预计今年灾难性可能是去年的两倍。

为了应对可能到来的停电危机，许多加州人已经将目标转向备用发电机。通用控股（Generac Holdings Inc.）首席执行官也表示，去年在停电一个月后该公司在加州的销售额猛增了300%。今年春天，硅谷领导小组成功地游说了州政府官员，批准让太阳能安装商提前重返工作岗位。但是太阳能电池板有一个电池来储存能量，购买并安装它需要花费30000美元，这并不是每个人都能支付的起的。

According to a June 2 assessment by the U.S. Drought Monitor, there are troublesome signs leading into this year’s wildfire season. A year ago at this time, the state was drought free. Now, almost 50% of California is gripped by drought, with the driest areas occurring across the northern part of the state. The result: an “above normal significant large fire potential,” according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. Already this year, more than 6,600 acres have been burned in the state. Small blazes are already cropping up on an almost daily basis. To be sure, many Californians have already turned to back-up power generators. If utilities cut power again, home offices set up during the pandemic could go dark and stay dark for days, and they’ll have no corporate offices to flee to for power. Call it a collision of crises. Blackouts that hit millions of Californians in 2019 could be doubly calamitous this year.
Generac Holdings Inc. saw its sales in the state surge 300%, its chief executive officer told Bloomberg a month after the blackouts. And this spring, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group successfully lobbied state officials to let solar installers return to work months before many other businesses opened. But solar panels with a battery to store the power, can cost $30,000 to buy the hardware for a robust home system and have it installed, so it’s not for everyone.  source

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