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RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Thu Jan 18 20:40:48 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'mdevney@teamsphere.com'" <mdevney@teamsphere.com>,
Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: 'Sean Donelan' <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:48:52 -0800
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Actually, my understanding was that it was a forced sell-off. PG&E had no
choice. They weren't allowed to keep the generators.
> From: mdevney@teamsphere.com [mailto:mdevney@teamsphere.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:11 PM
>
> 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.
> >
> Also note that:
>
> Half of these generators used to be owned and operated by
> PG&E; they were
> spun off quickly after deregulation in an effort to boost
> profits. Had I
> been out of diapers at the time, I would have seen this day
> coming back
> then.
>
> Root cause, then: PG&E can't get us electricity because they decided
> profit was more important than assured service.
