[steve8714]

Are they still building natgas plants, driving the price of home heating in the Midwest through the roof?

[TChris]

The Fed Gov should require that new power plants be nukes. The Nat Gas plants make too big of an impact on the (yes, interstate) NG market.

[ElkGroveDan]

thanks I was just looking for something like this

[bpjam]

And while California has been sleeping, Nevada has already built two new power plants right on the California border after the 2001 blackouts (thank you, Gray Davis). So this summer when California goes black they can buy their electricity from Nevada at mini-bar prices instead of Enron.

There has never been a free market that the government of California hasn't screwed up to the detriment of their citizens.

[Little Bill]

Any Ahole that builds a Generating plant in Kali is not worth investing in.

[calcowgirl]

... a more cautious power market in which generators want to be sure they can sell the energy they produce before spending billions on new plants.

I'm sure regulating greenhouse gas emissions will really make them happy. /s

[calcowgirl]

This site is kind of cool--you can see (almost) real time tracking the system load from the ISO Energy Management System:

http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html