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Tue Jan 23 09:46:35 UTC 2001

PG&E is caught in its own self created mess. When Australia deregulated they
were paying $89.00 per megawatt hour, part of the selling off of assets,
in the frame of the contract it was stipulated that they would be able to
buy power back from the buyer at a fixed rate the was predictable,
and per that agreement there power costs dropped to $16.00 and
$17.00 per megawatt hour.

PG&E on the other hand had that option and decided to forgo it and buy
on the spot market same with Southern California Edison. A major
miscalculation.

Next but not least there is the power exchange where power can be purchased
at a better rate than from PG&E. There is plenty of juice on the grid, just not

enough competitive marketing alignment to make it greater public knowledge.

Anyway I am pooped out and I need some sleep so I will stop here for now.

Roeland Meyer wrote:

> > From: Nathan Stratton [mailto:nathan at robotics.net]
> > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:27 PM
> >
> > On 22 Jan 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > > Have any Internet providers or private data centers announced any
> > > voluntary "good neighbor" measures such as wider
> > temperature and humdity
> > > limits, lights-out operation, off-peak use of heavy
> > electrical demands
> > > for laser printers, etc.
> >
> > Don't take this the wrong way, but frankly I would not be
> > happy if my colo
> > providers started implementing wider temperature and humdity
> > limits. I pay
> > large amounts of money for colo and I want what I am paying
> > for. This mess
> > was caused by California regulators and very very greedy PG&E
> > who gambled
> > on lower rates and lost. PG&E should be forces to liquidate
> > other out of
> > state assets and buy power at the market.
>
> Unfortunately, you are wrong. PG&E is caught between a rock and the
> generators. Generator cost has been gouged up over 700% and PG&E is forced
> to maintain prices. There is plently of capacity if the generator companies
> want to bring it online. Obviously, they don't, because they have a pretty
> good blackmail hand right now.

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