[33644] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Thu Jan 18 15:23:32 2001
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:46:40 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@civicnet.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:11:35PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>
> > What's wrong with this picture? I see the generators, holding a shotgun at
> > PG&E's neck, and telling the state that they'll pull the triggers if the
> > state doesn't come up with the dough. They're not even wearing a mask! Yet,
> > no one is seeing anything wrong with this and they're acting like it's
> > PG&E's fault.
>
> Is the situation any different in the LA area, where Los Angelas Water
> and Power is city-owned, and they own a big chunk of their own hydro
> capacity (or were they forced to divest that)>
The city of LA DWP currently has extra power and is selling their reserves
to the rest of the state.
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