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To: Neocon who wrote (168002)	8/6/2001 2:07:07 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) of 769667

It is ABSOLUTELY clear that the State of California, knew they were in BIG trouble electrical power wise before the Summer of 2000. On May 10th, 2000 the ISO had a press release (that can be accessed from the CAISO website), that showed if there was a "normal" summer (normal weather and normal power imports from the North West and Arizona - I don't believe that power for TX is physically able to reach CA), Peak power usage would be within 100MW of available supply (a stage 3 Alert - meaning impending rolling blackouts - occurs when supplies are < ~450MW more than consumption). The press release said that if it there is a hot summer(a 5% chance), the State AT LEAST 1,000MW SHORT (implying mandatory power shedding, brownouts and or blackouts)! The June and August were unusually hot, and imports were lower than normal. Why wasn't California's problems on the front page before the summer of 2000 or at least June (when spot power prices often reached over $500 MWhr)? Maybe because the DOE had bigger political problems at the time - The mess at the Los Alamos labs.

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