Re: California public safety power shutdowns

[Chuck Church <chuckchurch () gmail com>]

Isn't this a topic for an outage list?  Or a power grid list?

Chuck


On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 5:28 PM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> 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