[49912] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CA Power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rowland, Alan D)
Fri Jul 12 10:36:26 2002
From: "Rowland, Alan D" <alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:35:17 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I'm a little late to this discussion but the first stage two alert (two =
days
ago?) resulted from a large power plant going off-line for "unspecified
reasons" to quote the spokesperson. Does make you go hmmm...
-Al Rowland
Just my 2=A2, feel free to use your delete key.
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Hannigan [mailto:hannigan@fugawi.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:42 PM
To: Gary E. Miller
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: CA Power
At 03:03 PM 7/11/2002 -0700, Gary E. Miller wrote:
>Yo Martin!
>
>If there is plenty of power in CA then howcum there was a "stage 2"=20
>alert yesterday and a "market alert today"? Today's "projected =
demand"=20
>equaled "available resources" today If demand played out as expected=20
>there would have been big trouble in CA today.
A lot of data surrounding the Enron collapse suggests that power =
traders
artificially manipulated CA's power market, and also suggests that a =
lot of=20
the
previous summers warnings of power problems were also artificially =
created.
All over the country, building of "extra" capacity has slowed. Some due =
to
new sources that came online, some due to the fact that a decrease in =
power
was realized as a result of the falloff in the economy.
Could it be that CA is experiencing a normal surge in power utilization =
and
the warning is part of a normal cycle?
Regards,
--
Martin Hannigan hannigan@fugawi.net
