
Things change.

The California Independent System Operator, the folks in charge of
the electric transimission grid in california, announced today they've
established a new notification service.  In case the ISO implements
rotating outages or electrical emergencies, they will send e-mail
to newsrooms.

>From the media release, it appears this is only for members of the
media.

For the public, the ISO will add outage information during rotating
blackouts to their System Status web page http://www.caiso.com/

Local power companies also have evolving notification policies.  As
the number of rotating blackouts increase this summer, I expect all
of them will provide notification.  The Internet will be one of the
primary methods for transmitting notifications to the media, which
will in turn inform the public.




