Re: California PUC orders outage notification

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Fri, 30 March 2001, "Henry R. Linneweh" wrote:
> This will happen if the ISO gives ample warning,  it has already been
> determined that 10 minutes would not fall within that category, so its
> a good decision but has its drawbacks.

The California Office of Emergency Services now includes CAL-ISO
power alerts in its radio EDIS service.  (http://edis.oes.ca.gov/)
Several software programers have developed various programs which
constantly poll the CAISO web site, and will make noises and flashes
your PC screen when alerts are issued.