Second day of rolling blackouts starts

Thu Jan 18 23:33:49 UTC 2001

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Eric Germann wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:02:05 -0500
> From: Eric Germann <ekgermann at cctec.com>
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts
> 
> 
> Answering my own question.
> 
> http://www.mapp.org/publications/documents/maps/XMapp_00.pdf
> 
> with some input from Tim Hodges
> 
> Miles City Montana 200MW
> Stegall, WY (?) 100MW
> SIdney, NE 200MW
> 
> The simple solution would be to interconnect the two grids so excess
> capacity could be wheeled East to West or vice versa.  California is
> going black.  If we could just shut off the rest of the Western states
> for a little bit, connect the grids, resync the generation, we'd be all
> set.
> 
The problem is more economic than technical.  There's plenty of power,
just that the right people don't have the cash on hand to pay for
it.  Just criminal mismanagement, nothing new.