[36897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California ISO announces new notification service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saint skullY the Dazed)
Wed Apr 25 00:22:53 2001
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:09:08 -0700
From: Saint skullY the Dazed <skully@netlsd.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Sfgate.com has been providing notice for a couple weeks, at least. I got
the notice about the iso issuing a stage 2 alert earlier today.
http://www.sfgate.com/newsletters/energy/
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:04:03PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Things change.
>
> The California Independent System Operator, the folks in charge of
> the electric transimission grid in california, announced today they've
> established a new notification service. In case the ISO implements
> rotating outages or electrical emergencies, they will send e-mail
> to newsrooms.
>
> From the media release, it appears this is only for members of the
> media.
>
> For the public, the ISO will add outage information during rotating
> blackouts to their System Status web page http://www.caiso.com/
>
> Local power companies also have evolving notification policies. As
> the number of rotating blackouts increase this summer, I expect all
> of them will provide notification. The Internet will be one of the
> primary methods for transmitting notifications to the media, which
> will in turn inform the public.
>
>
>
