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Re: California hits stage 3 power emergency


From: Wayne Bouchard <web () typo org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:50:23 -0700


On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:37:04PM -0800, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote:

I haven't seen Sean post about this yet, so figured I would.

California's been getting hit with a nasty storm since yesterday that's
taken out some more major power plants; the CAISO declared a Stage 3
(rolling blackouts all around) power emergency just before 9 AM PST today.

See http://www.caiso.com/SystemStatus.html for pretty graphs.

Have you test-run your backup generators and transfer switches lately? }:>

More particularly, for those who negotiated lower power rates in
exchange for a promise to remove themselves from the grid in the event
of such, does ANYONE at your NOC know how to do this without blowing
your UPS? :-)

-Wayne
 (web () typo org)


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