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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Summary: Bay Area Power (2000-06-14)
As it finally cools down, and things appear to be back online, here on the late coast... According to CAISO's website, the state-wide grid only reached a "Stage One Electrical Emergency", and no stats that I can find detail the Bay area other than the activation of voluntary interrupt disconnections. According to both PG&E and the media, a Stage Three emergency was declared in the afternoon, resulting in rolling blackouts for 1.5 to 2 hours per block section. The Palo Alto and Santa Clara grids (separate from PG&E) also went to a Stage Three emergency state. All press releases and reports indicate that this was done at the request of CAISO. Cupertino and possibly some of Sunnyvale around De Anza, from Stevens Creek to I-85, including the Apple campus, were under blackout from 13:30 to 15:30. This was before the media informed people of rolling blackouts, and I have not yet heard a clear answer as to whether this was scheduled (though the nature of the timing, and it's coincidence with later blackouts, suggests that it may have been the first block outage). There was one unconfirmed report of an outage of unknown scope, area and duration occuring at 14:30. Many confirmed reports of widespread outages began to come in at roughly 15:00, from the following areas: San Jose, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Foster City (no confirmed outage, only warnings), Fremont, the China Basin, and parts of San Francisco. At least one major data center disconnected from the grid and went to generator power, prior to the rolling blackouts. The motivation was not stated, but it seems likely that they were requested to do so as part of the voluntary interruption efforts. No interruption of service was seen. 2 ISP failures were reported; no explicit "ISP alive and well" notices came, but the number of people affected by the area, and still able to transit traffic, would indicate a fair number of service providers still up and flinging packets hither and yon. Sean Donelan was not heard from, and we're all hoping the power gnomes didn't get him :) Tomorrows peak power drain is predicted to be somewhat *above* todays peak was predicted for - so, barring a miracle cooling effect in the Bay, you can probably expect more of the same sort of thing tomorrow. Probably with less folks posting about it - unless/until someone's supply gives out and something big falls over, anyway. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [email protected] http://www.lightbearer.com/~lucifer
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