[OT]: Involuntary outages may start at 7am PST

Wed Jan 24 16:06:07 UTC 2001

Uh, PG&E does buy power at the market.  They are simply
not allowed to sell power at the market price, which is
the root cause of the problem.

Deregulation tends to work when both sides are fully
deregulated (buying and selling).  Crimping the 
creation of new power plants and being forced to sell
essentially unlimited amounts of power at a nearly 
fixed price caused this mess.  Blame the environmentalists
and politicians, not PG&E.

Prabhu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Stratton [mailto:nathan at robotics.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:27 PM
> To: Sean Donelan
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Involuntary outages may start at 7am PST
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> -Nathan
> 
> 
> 