The day California went dark was a crisis years in the making

YourSun.com: Signs of a problem within California's power system emerged a full day before the blackouts hit.

Trader Dov Quint sat in his basement outside Boulder, Colorado, scouring the state's day-ahead power market for opportunities to profit from California's heat wave. He saw something strange: Prices for electricity to be delivered the next day — the day of the blackouts — were nearing $1,000 a megawatt-hour, more than 26 times higher than last year's average.

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