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The storm is the second Pineapple Express weather system, or
atmospheric river storm, to hit the state in the past week and
arrived just as Los Angeles welcomed celebrities for the music
industry's Grammy awards.
According to PowerOutage.us, the utility with the most outages
was Pacific Gas and Electric Co (PG&E) with over 500,000
customers without power. PG&E is a unit of California energy
company PG&E Corp.
"Since the start of the storm 24 hours ago, PG&E crews have
restored more than 565,000 customers who lost power.
Approximately 570,000 customers remain out of power," PG&E said
on its website.
California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency
in eight counties with a combined population of more than 20
million people, and flash flood warnings were issued for parts
of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
The U.S. National Weather Service's Los Angeles office said LA
saw its third wettest day ever for the month of February since
1877 on Sunday, highlighting high risk for life-threatening and
damaging flooding through Tuesday afternoon.
The next day base power prices in California's SP-15 hub rose as
high as $63.35 per megawatt-hour (MWh) for the 18th hour on
Monday.
(Reporting by Harshit Verma and Brijesh Patel in Bengaluru;
Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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