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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (100402)	5/7/2001 8:52:02 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Some of the "time capsules" in this link are a laugh riot! Message 15763343

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (100402)	5/7/2001 9:04:14 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

Blackout season in California has begun: quote.bloomberg.com 05/07 20:25 California Blackouts Ordered as Power Reserve Falls (Update2) By Daniel Taub Folsom, California, May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Rolling blackouts were ordered throughout California after electricity reserves dropped below 1.5 percent because of warmer weather and reduced supply, the state's power-system manager said. About 300 megawatts of power will be saved through blackouts, the California Independent System Operator said. PG&E Corp., owner of the state's largest utility, said it was ordered to cut power to 54,000 customers. A megawatt is enough power to light 750 typical California homes. Millions of Californians lost electricity for periods of an hour or more during four days of rolling blackouts this year. Blackouts last hit the state in March. During rolling blackouts, power cuts rotate among groups of customers to prevent a failure of the state's 32,000-mile power-transmission system. ``We're looking for all the resources we can identify,'' said Lorie O'Donley, a spokeswoman for the Independent System Operator. Inland temperatures were expected to reach the low 90s today, raising demand for electricity to run air conditioners, the Folsom, California-based agency said. Plants generating 12,500 megawatts of electricity, including four nuclear plants, are down because of repairs or malfunctions. Sempra Energy's San Diego Gas & Electric, California's third- largest investor-owned electric utility, cut 22 megawatts of electricity, spokesman Doug Kline said. Officials with Edison International's Southern California Edison, the state's No. 2 utility, weren't immediately able to comment. The duration and size of the blackouts ``will be evaluated on an hourly basis,'' the ISO said.