California: Feds say generators didn't cause the blackouts

The Sacramento Bee ^ | Thursday, April 3, 2003 | Daniel Weintraub

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It was just before 10 a.m. on Jan. 18, 2001, when the people who operate California's electricity grid ran short of juice and started cutting off power to about 600,000 customers from Bakersfield to the Northern California border. Later that day, Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency, and the state Senate voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayers' money to keep the power flowing as two big utilities edged toward bankruptcy.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Daniel has it figured out pretty well!

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[Dog Gone]

This exercise in distributing blame is more than just splitting hairs. The more the generators can be made the scapegoats here, the less accountable will be the public officials who set this whole affair in motion. And the federal review of the PUC study shows just how desperate California's policy-makers have been to shift blame for the crisis away from themselves.

You mean the CPUC isn't an objective, credible source of information?? < gasp >

[okie01]

"Daniel has it figured out pretty well!"

Weintraub's last sentence reveals a keen understanding of the subject, doesn't it?

But all the facts, not just the self-serving spin of California politicians and energy regulators, should be part of the record and understood before the state begins the difficult task of reshaping its energy industry for the 21st century.

[tubebender]

Has PG&E added another line in the "Bottle Neck" area of the Central Valley. Because of that restriction we couldn't bring power from the SouthWest to Northern Cal.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don't know that they have!

[heleny]

Davis declared a state of emergency

Davis still has his emergency powers from that "state of emergency." Either the energy crisis isn't resolved, or he should relinquish his extraordinary powers.

[Truth29]

In Grayout Davis's Kalifornia, how much of this analysis will be read or understood by a population that is primarily exceedingly liberal or illegal or both.

[mabelkitty]

Didn't Diane Feinstein call for an investigation into this? Like last week some time?

[mvpel]

Petitions for recalling Davis are now available at http://www.recalldavis.org/ - get yours today!

[expatpat]

So, who was to blame?

[AndyTheBear]

So, who was to blame?

No one person or entity, but any resonable person must conclude that Gray Davis would be the cheif figure.

[eBelasco]

Politicians always retain whatever emergency powers they claim, long after the emergency subsides.

[redbaiter]

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