It’s been quite a week and a half for the Bay Area: It began with strong, dangerous winds storms; those led to massive power shut offs and also whipped up damaging fires; those fires led to mass evacuations, including record-setting evacuations in Sonoma County. 

On this edition of KCBS In Depth, we discuss what this unprecedented series of events has meant for Bay Area residents. Then in the second half we consider how changes to California's power grid might one day decrease the state's fire risk along with the need for safety shutoffs. 

Guests: 
KCBS Reporter Jeffrey Schaub 
Severin Borenstein, the faculty director at the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a member of the California Independent System Operator Board of Governors
Michael Wara, senior research scholar at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at UC Berkeley and former science envoy for the US State Department

It&rsquo;s been quite a week and a half for the Bay Area: It began with strong, dangerous winds storms; those led to massive power shut offs and also whipped up damaging fires; those fires led to mass evacuations, including record-setting evacuations in Sonoma County.&nbsp;
On this edition of KCBS In Depth, we discuss what this unprecedented series of events has meant for Bay Area residents. Then in the second half we consider how changes to California's power grid might one day decrease the state's fire risk along with the need for safety shutoffs.&nbsp;
Guests:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>KCBS Reporter Jeffrey Schaub&nbsp;</li>
<li>Severin Borenstein, the faculty director at the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a member of the California Independent System Operator Board of Governors</li>
<li>Michael Wara, senior research scholar at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University</li>
<li>Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at UC Berkeley and former science envoy for the US State Department</li>
</ul>

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