Its not just California. Las Vegas Nevada had a rolling blackout on Monday. Nevada Power needed to shed approximately 100 Megawatts of power (10,000 customers) when heat and maintenance outages at power plants lead to power shortages. Casinos and other large power consumers were requested to shed 50 megawatts of load. 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).
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
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".
I wonder if Pepco might find another source of power by magnetizing their manhole covers and putting coils around the edges of the manholes. That way, when the manholes explode, as they have been doing lately, the cover would induce electrical flux in the coils and add to the power reserves. :-)
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