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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (100714)	5/8/2001 6:59:05 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

No wonder "visibility" is no where to be found, what with these black-outs every day and all: http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20Financial%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_topfin&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_topfin&bt=ad_position1_topfin&middle=ad_frame2_topfin&s=AOvhzhhWnQ2FsaWZv 05/08 18:30 California Blackouts Imposed for Second Day in a Row (Update1) By Daniel Taub Folsom, California, May 8 (Bloomberg) -- California's electricity grid manager imposed rotating blackouts throughout the state for the second day in a row as high temperatures raised demand and power supplies dropped. The California Independent System Operator called a Stage Three alert at 3:10 p.m., San Francisco time, as power reserves dropped below 1.5 percent. The agency called on utilities to cut 400 megawatts, or enough power to light 300,000 typical California homes. The state has about 1,000 megawatts less supply today than yesterday, said Jim McIntosh, director of grid operations for the Folsom, California-based ISO. One megawatt lights about 750 average California homes. Demand was expected to be 1,000 megawatts higher today than yesterday as hot weather increased air- conditioning use, the ISO said. About 96,000 power customers in the state had hour-long blackouts yesterday because of limited supply. Millions of Californians have lost their electricity for periods of an hour or more during rolling blackouts that hit in January, March and this week. During rolling blackouts, power cuts rotate among groups of customers to prevent a failure of the state's 32,000-mile power- transmission grid.