[32731] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: California power - its cold, its dark
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian W.)
Fri Dec 8 00:40:40 2000
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 21:36:35 -0800 (PST)
From: "Brian W." <bri@sonicboom.org>
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
Cc: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
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I hear there are many plants offline also, there apparently is a system in
place that accounts for annual environmental emissions, and some plants
have met their annual allottment. My take is its all a plan by left wing
environmentalist wackos to put up so many roadblocks that plants cant be
built. I hear 2 were just approved, but there have been none built in a
very long time, despite the population in the sun belt.
In summary:poor management as pointed out earlie.
Brian
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ><>
> Nathan Stratton CTO, Exario Networks, Inc.
> nathan@robotics.net nathan@exario.net
> http://www.robotics.net http://www.exario.net
>
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