11 Jan
2001
11 Jan
'01
4:50 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:37:04PM -0800, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote:
I haven't seen Sean post about this yet, so figured I would.
California's been getting hit with a nasty storm since yesterday that's taken out some more major power plants; the CAISO declared a Stage 3 (rolling blackouts all around) power emergency just before 9 AM PST today.
See http://www.caiso.com/SystemStatus.html for pretty graphs.
Have you test-run your backup generators and transfer switches lately? }:>
More particularly, for those who negotiated lower power rates in exchange for a promise to remove themselves from the grid in the event of such, does ANYONE at your NOC know how to do this without blowing your UPS? :-) -Wayne (web@typo.org)