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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE[2]: California power - its cold, its dark
Roeland, I think you're confusing the California Aqueduct with the "Los Angeles Aqueduct". The LA Aqueduct's (designed by William Mullholland, constructed 1907-1913) gravity-flow contruction requires no pumps. It diverts eastern Sierra mountain streams from the Owens Valley and Mono Lake basin to reservoirs in the metro Los Angeles area. Joe Roeland Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the links guys. Now, here's the summary. > > 1) California power load is still 10,000 MW below peak delivery of last > Summer. > 2) Slightly over 1/3 of the generation plants are down for "maintenance". > 3) There was an unplanned 500 KW outage, which was compensated for by > shuting down the pumps of the California Aquaduct sytem temporarily. > > 1) Blame is being placed on the early and extra cold winter. However, a > quick perusal of the Farmers Almanac shows that this is expected and no > surprise, or shouldn't be. > 2) The REAL blame probably rests on the head of the yahoo that allowed so > many plants to go on scheduled maintenance at the same time. > 3) Shutting down the aquaduct is real bad. Some of Bill Mullholland's design > depends on siphon effect and if the siphon breaks it takes weeks of massive > power usage in order to resore it. Ergo, they can't shut it down too long or > it'll cost too much power to bring it back up. Leaving it down isn't an > option, too many people depend on that water. > > It's looking more like a management screw-up and more people are begining to > realize it. The deregulators were so busy deregulating that future usage > planning was foregone. Forcing the local utilities to sell off their > generators may not have been very smart either. Current power capacity > scheduling was also bungled. The timing can only be either gross > incompetance or Machiavallien cunning. > > Thank you all for the additional links. I was actually researching this > since a few days ago. Some of us are preparing grounds for suit, > independently, in the event that they start long rolling black-outs. We have > six-hours worth of bats, so we should be okay. But, our clients don't. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nathan Stratton [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:47 PM > > To: Sean Donelan > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: California power - its cold, its dark > > > > > > > > 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? > > > > ><> > > Nathan Stratton CTO, Exario > > Networks, Inc. > > [email protected] [email protected] > > http://www.robotics.net http://www.exario.net > > > > -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-969-2203 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124
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