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To: Ilaine who wrote (110811)7/2/2001 6:03:22 AM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
CB -

Smoking gun backfires.

worldnetdaily.com

"Report: State grid operator behind plant's output swings

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The operator of the state's power grid has acknowledged that it was responsible for swings in production at a power plant that Gov. Gray Davis held as an example of price gouging by out-of-state energy companies.

The Los Angeles Times and Charlotte Observer reported Sunday that the California Independent System Operator told its oversight board that records showed Duke Energy was following orders to help balance the grid and not driving up prices.

Three former workers at Duke Energy's San Diego-area plant told state investigators June 22 that production units were shut down in what they called a scheme to drive up electricity prices.

Duke responded last week by taking out full-page newspaper ads defending itself against the accusations by the former workers.

Duke officials said in the ads -- which appeared in newspapers in California, Texas, South Carolina and North Carolina -- that plant production was increased and decreased at the order of Cal-ISO, the agency that controls the state's power grid and monitors supply and demand.

The California version of Duke's advertisement specifically denied the workers' allegations, and claimed they "did not know -- and were not in an operational capacity to know -- that the ISO directs output. ..."

Governor Davis had praised the three workers as heroes and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante said they had delivered the "smoking gun" needed to prove price gouging. ..."

Regards, Don
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