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To: DavesM who wrote (443680)8/15/2003 6:17:01 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Respond to of 769670
 
LADWP gets 50% of it's power from coal plants it owns and runs in Utah. Kinda heroic, don't ya think?;)



To: DavesM who wrote (443680)8/15/2003 7:56:25 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 769670
 
There are ways to achieve isolation without needing a power plant in every neighborhood. The regional isolation is disappearing because there is no effective central coordination. It is of incremental, individual advantage for power trading companies to place their own transmission lines in popular corridors. When you look at the future of "small government" deregulation as practiced by the Voodoo economic squad this is an example of what you get.

TP


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