[33457] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California hits stage 3 power emergency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Thu Jan 11 16:52:23 2001
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:50:23 -0700
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
To: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@DAL.NET>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010111123704.A15902@dragonlair.dal.net>; from dalvenjah@DAL.NET on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:37:04PM -0800
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:37:04PM -0800, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote:
>
> I haven't seen Sean post about this yet, so figured I would.
>
> California's been getting hit with a nasty storm since yesterday that's
> taken out some more major power plants; the CAISO declared a Stage 3
> (rolling blackouts all around) power emergency just before 9 AM PST today.
>
> See http://www.caiso.com/SystemStatus.html for pretty graphs.
>
> Have you test-run your backup generators and transfer switches lately? }:>
More particularly, for those who negotiated lower power rates in
exchange for a promise to remove themselves from the grid in the event
of such, does ANYONE at your NOC know how to do this without blowing
your UPS? :-)
-Wayne
(web@typo.org)
