I hear there are many plants offline also, there apparently is a system in place that accounts for annual environmental emissions, and some plants have met their annual allottment. My take is its all a plan by left wing environmentalist wackos to put up so many roadblocks that plants cant be built. I hear 2 were just approved, but there have been none built in a very long time, despite the population in the sun belt. In summary:poor management as pointed out earlie. Brian On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Nathan Stratton wrote:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Roeland Meyer wrote:
Thanks for the links guys. Now, here's the summary.
1) California power load is still 10,000 MW below peak delivery of last Summer.
What happens next summer when there will be more demand? I don't see any new generation coming online anytime soon. I guess it is time to look at new turbine technology.
2) Slightly over 1/3 of the generation plants are down for "maintenance".
Sure :-) Lets make some money on the spot market time.
One odd thing I did notice is that my voltage graphs in CA are very close to the load graphs on the caiso website.
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