Re: San Francisco power outages imminent

[Roy <garlic () garlic com>]

Disinformation?  Its not on the CAISO web site.

Hal Murray wrote:

> The view from Palo Alto:
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> Date:  Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:32:44 -0700
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> STAGE TWO ELECTRIC ALERT!
>
> The Cal ISO has declared Stage One and Two Emergencies for today from
> Noon to 6:00 pm.  Demand is exceeding transmission capability in the
> Bay Area by 250 megawatts.  Please reduce electric consumption to the
> greatest extent possible.  If required, Stage 3 (rolling blackouts)
> may not allow advance notice.  You may wish to engage your emergency
> generators.  We will update you as information becomes available.
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> Sent:   Wednesday, June 14, 2000 3:26 PM
>
> At 2:34 p.m. Palo Alto initiated rolling blackouts to shed 3.3
> megawatts of load. Similar action is occurring throughout the Bay
> Area. Affected outage areas are in residential portions of Block 6 and
> will be impacted for two hours. Thank you for your efforts. See
> www.cpau.com for more info.