California Electricity Crisis

Hasn’t CA had ongoing problems with power consumption and rolling blackouts too?

Not sure why you got downvoted. Yes, rolling brownouts are still very much a thing in California and probably will be for the foreseeable future: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/california-faces-...

Is this why Calfornia energy is so expensive and constantly having blackouts?

California trends to have problems with electricity instead.

California is an expert at this.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

Can someone provide a reasonably unbiased take on the state of Californias electric grid? From the outside looking in, it seems their push towards renewables was perhaps too aggressive and now they are having issues meeting demand - but admittedly (living on the east coast) I am pretty ignorant on the intricacies.

California is terrible company to keep, and has the worst energy prices in the US.We condescendingly laugh at Texas when their grid shuts down, meanwhile we pay 3x the price and our grid burns down towns and is frequently disabled.We have a state regulatory commission that sets price controls on electricity, which the price at operational costs +10%. Naturally, the costs to deliver power goes up every single time it is assessed.California is also home to laws that every new house must h

Don't last year's blackouts count?https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/pge-rebuked-over-imposing-bl...

"California’s latest energy crisis has several causes. For one, 9 gigawatts of gas generation—enough to power 6.8 million homes—was retired in recent years. Over that same period, the state’s grid integrated more solar power, which without sufficient battery storage can be less reliable than the fossil fuels that drive global warming."

A source of very expensive electricity in California.