On Today, Sean Donelan wrote:
In better news New York City believes it has added enough peaker plants, so NYC will not have power shortages this summer. However, as a representative of the Edison Institute pointed in 1999, no electricity consumer should assume power will never fail (double negative).
Dominion VA Power in Virginia is advertising "Deregulation will be coming to Virginia. The crisis that's occurring in California will not." Almost 8,000 megawatts of new "power" is scheduled to be online by 2005. http://www.dom.com/companies/competition/contrast.html Pepco(serving DC and MD) says the same. 15,000 megawatts coming online but that number is shared among several companies in the "PJM". http://www.pepco.com/pepco/ca_energy_problems_frms.htm -Gordo -------------------------------------------------- Gordon Ewasiuk, Sun Firefighter, Winstar VHC O: 703.889.4035 C: 703.731.4828 IM: wanjunkie The REAL office number is here-----> 703.893.4901 -------------------------------------------------- 4:20am up 9 day(s), 5:20, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.05, 0.03