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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (134630)3/16/2001 9:13:57 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1579846
 
How? California has done a very good job of seeing that the West Coast is more or less isolated with respect to energy. Getting more natural gas there could relieve some of the problems, but it takes time to build power lines, pipelines and plants. Requiring proper insulation and sealing takes time too. There is just no feasible short term solution.

My understanding is that the problem is more one of not being able to afford to buy the energy on the spot market rather than a real shortage. Had CA built enough power plants, the CA utilities would not have to go to the spot markets where energy costs are higher and pushed even higher with CA's shortage. One consequence is that the NW has had to send power down to CA and then in turn, our utilities have had to go to the spot market and buy the expensive energy. And while utilities here can pass on the higher costs to customers, CA will not allow the utilities there to pass on the cost to CA customers.

Let me know if I have misunderstood this problem. I had hoped that the feds would have stepped up and forced CA to permit its utilities to pass on the cost of the energy to customers, and forstall bankruptcy and more disruptions to CA's power supply.

What I would like to see, and it is almost totally impossible in today's political climate, is some sort of tax break or incentive to install those solar cell shingles to supplement the power at each house/condo/apartment block.

What CA has a lot of are wind farms in the desert that generate power....but I don't know the economics of these farms and the cost of the power that's generated.

ted
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