Involuntary outages may start at 7am PST

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

It looks like business as usual tomorrow for power in California.

At 7:30pm on Monday PG&E used up all the interruptiable hours in
power contracts for the entire year.  Customers with interruptible
power contracts no longer must shed load.  PG&E will have to treat
all customers "equally," and start dropping firm loads if appeals
for voluntary conservation efforts don't work.

At Midnight, the emergency order signed by the Clinton administration's
DOE Secretary Richardson expires.  So far the Bush administration's DOE
secretary has not signed a new order covering generators in the western
USA.

California ISO says "customer outages likely Tuesday morning."  A press
conference has been scheduled at 7:30am.

Involuntary outages may start as early as 7am on Tuesday morning.



Have any Internet providers or private data centers announced any
voluntary "good neighbor" measures such as wider temperature and humdity
limits, lights-out operation, off-peak use of heavy electrical demands
for laser printers, etc.