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Re: California power - its cold, its dark

  • From: Nathan Stratton
  • Date: Thu Dec 07 23:00:19 2000 
On 7 Dec 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:

> Approximately one-third of California's power generating capacitiy
> is off-line.  The California system operator has called a "stage 3"
> power alert, requiring *interruptiable* customers be interrupted
> until 10pm tonight.  They are not instituting rotating blackouts
> of other customers at this time.

Any word on the cause of the outage, did several reactors scram at the
same time or is this a transmission issue?

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Nathan Stratton				CTO, Exario Networks, Inc.
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