Dr. Bernard Weinstein, Associate Director of the Maguire Energy Institute and Tower Center Associate, wrote about how the summer of 2020 has been a tale of three calamities for California. A resurgence of COVID-19 cases, now approaching 700,000 statewide, forced Gov. Gavin Newsom in July to order the shutdown of indoor restaurants, bars and many other businesses that had reopened in late May. California was then afflicted by an early onset of wildfire season that, so far, has consumed more than 21.3 million acres, destroyed 1,800 buildings and led to at least seven deaths. The third misfortune for Californians this summer has been extreme heat that, in turn, has led to brownouts and blackouts on the state’s electric power grid. Read more here.