[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Of that, 2,200 megawatts were unavailable because of unexpected power plant shutdowns, including units in Huntington Beach and Redondo Beach.

The city and State won't let the AES units run , I believe.

Hardly an unexpected outage!

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[goldstategop]

They're blaming Californians for guzzling too much energy. Well GrayDown gave every one the impression the power crisis was as good as solved. Now people are being reminded he has yet to make good on his boast. As for conservation, the government hasn't done the job of trying to prepare people for the fact new power plants won't be online for several years and no wonder its surprised by the reappearance of power outages. Welcome to the wacky world of Kalifornistan.

[olivia3boys]

It's 108 today where I live in CA. It was 105 yesterday. I'm running all my electricity as much as possible because I'd LOVE to have some rolling blackouts! I look at my resulting higher electic bills as sort of an in-kind contribution to Simon. Besides, I'm subsidizing all this electricity now through all my higher CA taxes, doubled vehicle registration fees, etc. I might as well enjoy my A/C since I'm paying for it in ways other than just to PG&E!

[NormsRevenge]

The state has undertaken an aggressive campaign to build more power plants and encourage Californians to use less energy.

B S !!! .. Yeah, Right!
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON

[Robert357]

This kind of article really frosts me! Where to start on this bunch of *&%$!#@.

Earth to stupid reporters, it was a Stage 1 Energy EMERGENCY, not a Stage 1 Energy ALERT!

As a result, the severe hot weather throughout California and Nevada and a few unexpected power plant breakdowns forced state grid operators to call a Stage 1 alert(sic).

"People still need to understand that this is still a market that is vulnerable," said Richard Katz, a top energy adviser to Gov. Gray Davis. "If anything comes out of today, it's just a reminder that the conservation piece of this is critical to us in California."

So, over 2,000 MW of unplanned outages is a "few unexpected power plant breakdowns." Gosh, I would hate to be around when anything out of the ordinary happened!

Yep, we go to remember that the environmental voting block is important so we have to push conservation even though a real translation of what happened would something as follows.

The lower power consumption earlier this year, due to poor economic health of business, but labled as conservation, has not remained at below normal levels as the economy has improved and business has increased employment and production. What Davis would like to urge is more power conservation unless it involves the loss of jobs among his support groups.

[Liz]

People still need to understand that this is still a market that is vulnerable," said Richard Katz, a top energy adviser to Gov. Gray Davis.

That's so, so sad. {{{sniff}}}} I think I'm gonna choke up {{{sob}}}.

[Redleg Duke]

Of course, it is always us that are at fault, never them.

[green team 1999]

i turned the ac all afternoon,waiting for a blackout,no such luck,will try again tomorrow.