RE: Involuntary outages may start at 7am PST

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

> From: Nathan Stratton [mailto:nathan () robotics net]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:27 PM
>
> On 22 Jan 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> > Have any Internet providers or private data centers announced any
> > voluntary "good neighbor" measures such as wider 
> temperature and humdity
> > limits, lights-out operation, off-peak use of heavy 
> electrical demands
> > for laser printers, etc.
>
> Don't take this the wrong way, but frankly I would not be 
> happy if my colo
> providers started implementing wider temperature and humdity 
> limits. I pay
> large amounts of money for colo and I want what I am paying 
> for. This mess
> was caused by California regulators and very very greedy PG&E 
> who gambled
> on lower rates and lost. PG&E should be forces to liquidate 
> other out of
> state assets and buy power at the market.

Unfortunately, you are wrong. PG&E is caught between a rock and the
generators. Generator cost has been gouged up over 700% and PG&E is forced
to maintain prices. There is plently of capacity if the generator companies
want to bring it online. Obviously, they don't, because they have a pretty
good blackmail hand right now.