Uh, PG&E does buy power at the market. They are simply not allowed to sell power at the market price, which is the root cause of the problem. Deregulation tends to work when both sides are fully deregulated (buying and selling). Crimping the creation of new power plants and being forced to sell essentially unlimited amounts of power at a nearly fixed price caused this mess. Blame the environmentalists and politicians, not PG&E. Prabhu
-----Original Message----- From: Nathan Stratton [mailto:nathan@robotics.net] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:27 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Involuntary outages may start at 7am PST
On 22 Jan 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
Have any Internet providers or private data centers announced any voluntary "good neighbor" measures such as wider temperature and humdity limits, lights-out operation, off-peak use of heavy electrical demands for laser printers, etc.
Don't take this the wrong way, but frankly I would not be happy if my colo providers started implementing wider temperature and humdity limits. I pay large amounts of money for colo and I want what I am paying for. This mess was caused by California regulators and very very greedy PG&E who gambled on lower rates and lost. PG&E should be forces to liquidate other out of state assets and buy power at the market.
-Nathan