[Robert357]

I for one am getting really tired of the California almost blacking outs parts of the PNW. They have been working hard all year in trying to blackout California and now they seem to setting their sights on the whole of the West Coast.

3030 MW of generation in the PNW and 325 MW of interruptible load in the Bay Area is a fair amount of power to be jumping around!

I hope that the FERC staff at the California ISO is taking good notes and I hope that they testify as to what they are seeing in the court case where FERC says that the management structure of the ISO needs to be changed and the California Governor says not it is just fine and he needs to be personally in control.

Earth to Gov Davis, nobody at the California ISO is in control, that is the problem.

[Robert357]

Kind of busy now, so I am not checking things as regularly or posting as often.

I was upset when I saw that the California ISO has been at it again.

I wonder how many power interruptions need to occur in California, before a newspaper reports on Blackouts? I am sure that the power interruptions were not blackouts and that the low frequency was not a declared Stage X emergency, because that wouldn't have helped Gov. Davis get re-elected.

[heleny]

Either we are still in an emergency and the media are failing to report it (hence the two blackouts we had last month?), or Davis needs to lose his unchecked emergency powers.

[snopercod]

...inadvertent operation of the Breaker Failure Relay at Summer Lake Sounds like an AW SH!T!, to me. Someone bumped the relay or something? Or forgot to cut it out before calibration, perhaps?

disturbance Is this the new Cal-ISO euphemism for "electricity shortage"?

Chief Joseph Dynamic Braking Resistor I'm sure that Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce would be proud that the white man named a braking resistor after him. After all, it was he who said:

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself -- and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.