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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Your analysis ignores the profits received by the utilities when they sold the power plants to the generators at large multiples over book values over the last 4 years.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Roeland Meyer [<A HREF="mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com">mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:45 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: 'Sean Donelan'; nanog@merit.edu</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Last night, on the news, I saw a clip of Grey Davis stating that he'd met</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>with the four largest generator operator in the state. He emphatically</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>stated that they (the operators) had said that they would force PG&E into</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>bankruptcy unless they were paid, by mid-night, tonight. Grey Davis was</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>trying to justify state bail-out of PG&E. The news commentator didn't</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>otherwise reference that comment, but made some disparaging remarks about</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>PG&E. The News station put it in the same context of the folks encouraging</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>PG&E customers to not pay their bills. Basically, blaming PG&E for the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>problem.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Note that; </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>PG&E wouldn't owe such a larg sum if the generator charges (not costs)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>hadn't gone up over 700% in the past three months.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>PG&E is prevented from passing on their cost by law. Generator charges</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>currently exceed allowed end-user rates by two orders of magnitude.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>There is plenty of generator capacity, if they would simply bring them</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>online.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>AQMD (Air Quality Management District) is one excuse for keeping a healthy</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>generator offline.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Comment:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>What's wrong with this picture? I see the generators, holding a shotgun at</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>PG&E's neck, and telling the state that they'll pull the triggers if the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>state doesn't come up with the dough. They're not even wearing a mask! Yet,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>no one is seeing anything wrong with this and they're acting like it's</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>PG&E's fault.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Sean Donelan [<A HREF="mailto:sean@donelan.com">mailto:sean@donelan.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:58 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> To: nanog@merit.edu</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: Second day of rolling blackouts starts</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> California ISO has ordered a second day of rolling blackouts. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Following</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the written emergency operations order, the blackouts will begin with</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the next blocks in each utility's EOP. This means people who </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> experienced</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> a rolling blackout first yesterday, are last on the list </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> today. People</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> who did not experience a blackout yesterday move up the list.</FONT>
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