California hits stage 3 power emergency
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? }:> -dalvenjah -- Dalvenjah FoxFire (aka Sven Nielsen) In cyberspace, noone knows you're Founder, the DALnet IRC Network wearing pointy ears. e-mail: dalvenjah@dal.net WWW: http://www.dal.net/~dalvenjah/ whois: SN90 Try DALnet! http://www.dal.net/
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)
We are now running on emergency power. Calls to PG&E about outages are get a recording that rolling blackouts are in progress. Also see http://www.caiso.com/newsroom/releases/ Roy Engehausen
PG&E started with "block 3" (look on your power bill for what block number you are) -- assuming 1 hour per blackout, and they go through the block numbers in sequence, you have an idea of when you'll get hit. Anyone have an idea of how many PG&E blocks there are? --mec
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