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Calif Bill

"HK" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:47:48 -0000, wrote:

On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:45:54 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

In other words, the temperature of your home will no longer be yours
and
will be overridden by the state of California through its public and
private utility organizations.

All your thermostats are belong to us.
While I don't like, this might be a result of Enron. Remember all those
"rolling blackouts" of the early 2000s? Which would you rather have,
reduced control of your thermostat, or a blackout? If voluntary
reductions in power usage aren't working, what would you do?

Maybe build a few more power plants? Or properly use the ones they
already have in place?

Perfect example. $500 million 790 megawatt oil/gas plant down in
Killingly built by PG&E before they went under. That plant runs 16
hours a week to keep the turbines from deteroiating into junk. The
private equity group that bought it 5 years ago don't want to run it
because of operating costs (Union labor contract) and repairs only as
necessary. The plant is falling apart.

I understand that PG&E built several plants like this around the
country and all are in the same condition.

"Private equity groups" for the most part are only interested in milking
out assets.

PG&E was forced to sell the plants as part of the energy deregulation. One
of those bills passed by the state legislature at the last minute with few
even reading the bill. They were built as peaking plants. Only run when
you needed to.