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To: energyplay who wrote (1069)	3/7/2001 7:26:56 AM
From: Second_Titan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

Worldwide RIG count climbing biz.yahoo.com Certainly seems many of the new immigrants to California will be scratching their heads in the dark wondering how the hell California got so rich if they are just as screwed up as the country they left. One of the alleged abuses of the generators is they conspired to perform maintenance at the same time to reduce demand. When the State has contracts that enable some control of scheduled maintenance scheduling they can limit having many plants offline at the same time. When a merchant plant is built the State may have little or no say when the plants are taken offline for maintenance. It is not hard for me to believe that many of the companies looked at the economics and chose a time they thought would be the best to be offline. Only problem is it looks like allot of them chose the same time frames for maintenance. I work in the IPP industry and from what I have seen these companies are very conservative and would be very reluctant to do anything that would get them in hot water,especially in such a visible situation like in CA. I cant imagine NRG , DYN DUK REI etc coordinating outages to reduce demand and screw CA. Paronia may cause some to look for conspiracy, but the real culprit is CA. government incompetency.