[29280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Summary: Bay Area Power (2000-06-14)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Thu Jun 15 19:02:59 2000
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From: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:01:57 -0600
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I believe they're more so the result of "brown outs" as the power companies
attempt to "proactively" deal with extremely high loads. Given your message,
I guess it does make sense for the power companies to first inconvenience
business customers that 1) use a substantial amount of resources and 2)
already have alternative method of supporting themselves.
Of course, I'd guess there's considerable ground for objection to this model.
-danny
> In a conversation with an MFS engineer today I mentioned the problems
> in the Bay area. He previously worked for SNET (Southern New
> England Telephone, now part of SBC) for many years and said it was
> standard practice for them to disconnect COs from the grid and run
> off generator power for hours or even a day or two during the
> summer season.
>
> I was under the impression that these power shortages were the
> result of less over-engineering on the part of power companies due
> to deregulation but maybe this isn't such a new situation after all?
>
