This is how incompetent tyrannosaurus operate. When their fucked up policies blow up in their faces, they forcibly take shit and/or force people to do things against their will.
Jeez, another headline that doesn't match the body text. What happened according to the linked article is, Cal-ISO (called CAISO in the article) announced that during peak demand in California, the grid does not have the capacity to fulfill contracts Arizona has with Oregon hydroelectric producers to sell them electricity transmitted in part through the California grid system.
For background, Cal ISO is the independent system operator that took control from Southern California Edison and I believe PG&E during the great california electricity crisis because of their "incompetence at running the state's power grid" when Edison went broke providing electricity at inflated prices. All of it turned out to be a scam manufactured and carried out by Enron. It wasn't liberal policies which caused that energy crisis and gave rise to the ISO. It was greedy capitalists in an environment of deregulation of utilities at the time.
Now the "problem" is in the hands of CAL-ISO which is the independent entity supposed to fix this very problem. Make sure you understand exactly where responsibility and blame lie with this issue.
Welcome to Third World USA!
https://www.azcc.gov/news/2021/06/30/chairwoman-m%C3%A1rquez-peterson-alarmed-by-federal-ruling-allowing-california-to-block-energy-to-arizona