RE: California power - its cold, its dark

[Nathan Stratton <nathan () robotics net>]

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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