[32730] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: California power - its cold, its dark
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Fri Dec 8 00:09:43 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:07:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> Thanks for the links guys. Now, here's the summary.
>
> 1) California power load is still 10,000 MW below peak delivery of last
> Summer.
What happens next summer when there will be more demand? I don't see any
new generation coming online anytime soon. I guess it is time to look at
new turbine technology.
> 2) Slightly over 1/3 of the generation plants are down for "maintenance".
Sure :-) Lets make some money on the spot market time.
One odd thing I did notice is that my voltage graphs in CA are very close
to the load graphs on the caiso website.
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Nathan Stratton CTO, Exario Networks, Inc.
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