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Re: California public safety power shutdowns
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:26:54 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, William Herrin wrote:
Wasn't California in a similar mess 20 years ago when government regulation at the time also put PG&E in the position that they couldn't deliver the electricity their customers wanted? Something to do with hard limits on what PG&E could do but few limits on what third parties could do to it.
Yep, Enron (allegedly) used the California electric grid deregulation rules to arbitrage the system by causing false grid shortages and driving up wholesale electric prices.
It caused rolling blackouts throughout the CA ISO region in 2000 and 2001. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/us/tapes-show-enron-arranged-plant-shutdown.html
Current thread:
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns, (continued)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Fred Baker (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Mel Beckman (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Oct 10)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Mel Beckman (Oct 10)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- RE: California public safety power shutdowns Michel Py (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Chuck Church (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Michael Thomas (Oct 10)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Mel Beckman (Oct 10)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Michael Thomas (Oct 10)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Javier J (Oct 10)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Sean Donelan (Oct 10)
- Re: California public safety power shutdowns Sean Donelan (Oct 10)