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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (56248)	1/10/2001 3:39:45 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 436258

The real problem is not total power generated, transmitted and consumed, but its variability over both time of day and season. There is still plenty of opportunity for technological improvements to level the load requirements, and thus the peak capacity requirements, but the regulatory environment and price controls help prohibit any such investments. Good observation. Highlights why the CA "dereg" experiment was doomed to fail and why I believe any state by state effort will as well. Load and peak capacity requirements as well as transmission issues are power pool and grid based. tippet has touched on this recently.