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It’s helped that Southern California Edison’s lines are mostly underground and that the port, deemed a vital infrastructure, is exempt from brownouts, an outage resulting from a temporary drop in voltage.

“If you look at California, it’s got brownouts and blackouts every single day,” he claimed in a campaign video last year.

Claim: California’s clean energy policies are causing brownouts and grid issues.

Critics say wind farm projects are expensive, damage the environment and make the electrical grid less stable and more prone to brownout and blackouts.

That same year, a drought brought “brownouts” from starved hydroelectric plants.