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"HK" wrote in message ... 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. |
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:47:25 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... 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. That's not how it was presented to the Regional Siting Council which I sat on as one of two town representatives. |
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:47:25 -0800, "Calif Bill" wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... 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. That's not how it was presented to the Regional Siting Council which I sat on as one of two town representatives. PG&E built the turbine power plants here in the "Nannystate" as peaking plants. |
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