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Somehow, the reality of how we are squeaking by without blackouts last year and this year need to be tied into the Davis Recession and slumping economy.

True, but don't forget to factor in that most Californians still believe the whole "power crisis" thing is a total scam created in order to jack up their power bills, which I believe are, or at least used to be, artifically low due to some wacko RAT law out there or something. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that.) So they utterly refuse to make the most minor concessions in order to save electricity when supply gets tight, because there "isn't really any such thing as a power alert" and they don't have to pay the true cost of their consumption anyway.

I mean, something's got to be accounting for the state hitting 99%+ of peak capacity, Davis Recession or not.

Most of the rats and a large part of the moderates and even a few who call themselves conservatives still believe that there was never any real electricituy shortage. It was just a gimmic by big energy/evil big oil/evil cheney and evil GW working with PG&E to screw the Kali electricity users.

The ones saving on electricity are the Druid Envirals. Maybe 10% of them will pass out and melt into a scummy/waxy greenish puddle during this heat wave.

RE hitting the 99% capacity is part due to the heat, even in Napa/Sonoma and the bay counties. We had 111 degrees on our back deck just an hour ago. It is still 107 back there at 5:43 pm with no sign of letting up.

Businesses going out of business, cutting back on hours and people leaving Kali kept the lights on as they didn't use power or used less.

The final reality inspite of all the pictures of Davis with his shovel, we have not really added enough new power stations to replace the old ones going off line for meeting pollution maxs, repair/maintenance or being closed.

No company will build a new power plant in this Third World Fascist State. If you make a profit in power, the Fascist Attorney General might put you in jail for making a profit.

The other thing that kept the lights on is the coolness in most of Oregon at this time. Usually when we have that heat pump high over Nevada, Idaho and Utah, it gets very hot in Oregon. They had a wet year and a surplus in water for hydro electric power. So we are getting a lot on electricity from the NW. That will peter out in August.