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To: RealMuLan who wrote (37337)	8/20/2003 4:14:54 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

$56 Billion USD for power transmission fixes in North East - 1) They don't need to replace everything - much of the system is well engineered. 2) Smaller plants located closer to consumer area, like natural gas turbines, greatly reduce the need to increase transmission capacity. The older way of big economies of scale with huge plants, then very long transmission lines, is being replaced with distributed peaker capacity closer to the load. 3) Better communication and software can do a better job of optimizing and recovery from problems. 4) Growth rates in the affected areas have not been great - upstate New York, Ohio, Michigan aren't the fasted growing areas of the US, in population or heavy industry. California & western states are another issue, heavy growth vs. hard core environmentalism.... Southern US has been growing, but much more pro-business, especailly electricty to operate air conditioning....