Isn't this a topic for an outage list? Or a power grid list? Chuck
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 5:28 PM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, William Herrin wrote: > > Wasn't California in a similar mess 20 years ago when government > regulation > > at the time also put PG&E in the position that they couldn't deliver the > > electricity their customers wanted? Something to do with hard limits on > what > > PG&E could do but few limits on what third parties could do to it. > > Yep, Enron (allegedly) used the California electric grid deregulation > rules to arbitrage the system by causing false grid shortages and driving > up wholesale electric prices. > > It caused rolling blackouts throughout the CA ISO region in 2000 and 2001. > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/us/tapes-show-enron-arranged-plant-shutdown.html > >
