[33637] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Thu Jan 18 14:28:33 2001
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:22:16 -0800
To: matthew@tycho.net (Matthew Kaufman)
From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
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"'Sean Donelan'" <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
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At 11:00 AM +0000 1/18/01, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>at the time, the frozen rates were *above* their cost, and they were betting
>on a future cost structure that would result in huge profits for them and
>their parent.
Yeah, they weren't counting on the state cutting their legs out from under
them saying "no new power for you" on new generation requirements.
D
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