• Bahalex@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One company who is currently practicing power shutoffs, which was the question.

    Also, they made this choice after several big fires started from their infrastructure- while they were on some sort of corporate probation for exploding a neighborhood because of… faulty and under maintaining infrastructure. Not exactly a one off.

    • DoomBot5@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No, the question was “is this something normally done?” clearly the answer is no, since only 1 company is doing it.

    • the_third@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I would expect the answer to be “get your shit together”, not “okay, provide even worse service”. I’m living in rural Germany with a lot of unburied 10kV lines between villages, never heard of one of them starting a fire.