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Re: San Francisco power outages imminent

  • From: Roy
  • Date: Wed Jun 14 21:39:49 2000 
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
>
> 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.