Californians Prepare For Summer Blackouts.

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Under pressure to give more notice before pulling the plug, California's power grid managers have proposed issuing alerts a half-hour before blackouts and forecasting the likelihood of outages a day in advance. The proposal heartened business leaders who say unexpected rolling blackouts have cost them millions of dollars. But it disappointed consumer advocates and some lawmakers who hoped grid officials would consider their suggestion to schedule rolling blackouts days or weeks in advance. The idea of scheduling blackouts is gaining ground among state lawmakers, who say it would let people know when to expect outages and also force down runaway power prices by dampening demand. Rolling...