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Re: California ISO announces new notification service

  • From: Saint skullY the Dazed
  • Date: Wed Apr 25 00:25:04 2001 
Sfgate.com has been providing notice for a couple weeks, at least. I got 
the notice about the iso issuing a stage 2 alert earlier today.

http://www.sfgate.com/newsletters/energy/

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:04:03PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> Things change.
> 
> The California Independent System Operator, the folks in charge of
> the electric transimission grid in california, announced today they've
> established a new notification service.  In case the ISO implements
> rotating outages or electrical emergencies, they will send e-mail
> to newsrooms.
> 
> From the media release, it appears this is only for members of the
> media.
> 
> For the public, the ISO will add outage information during rotating
> blackouts to their System Status web page http://www.caiso.com/
> 
> Local power companies also have evolving notification policies.  As
> the number of rotating blackouts increase this summer, I expect all
> of them will provide notification.  The Internet will be one of the
> primary methods for transmitting notifications to the media, which
> will in turn inform the public.
> 
> 
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