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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (100518)	5/8/2001 12:39:15 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 436258

We're out here having fun, yeah, in the warm California sun!: quote.bloomberg.com 05/08 12:12 California Declares Power Alert; Blackouts Expected (Update1) By Daniel Taub Folsom, California, May 8 (Bloomberg) -- California may have blackouts for a second day as high temperatures boost demand and electricity supplies drop, the state's power-grid manager said. About 96,000 customers in California had hour-long blackouts yesterday because of limited supply. The state has about 1,000 megawatts less supply today than yesterday, said Kristina Werst, spokeswoman for the California Independent System Operator. One megawatt is enough power to light 750 California homes. The Folsom, California-based ISO called a Stage One alert at 8:08 a.m. San Francisco time as power reserves dropped below 7.5 percent. If reserves fall below 1.5 percent, a Stage Three alert is called and the agency may call for statewide blackouts. ``They're saying around 9 or 10 this morning they're likely to happen,'' Werst said. Demand is expected to be 1,300 megawatts higher today as hot weather increases air-conditioning use, Werst said. Millions of Californians lost their electricity for periods of an hour or more during five days of rolling blackouts this year. During rolling blackouts, power cuts rotate among groups of customers to prevent a failure of the state's 32,000-mile power- transmission grid.