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With Power Plant Offline, California Scrambles to Avoid Blackouts
FoxBusiness.com ^ | 6/15/2012 | Reuters

Posted on 06/15/2012 6:33:33 AM PDT by mykroar

California officials responsible for the state's electric grid are scrambling to avoid blackouts in southern California this summer following news that a major nuclear power plant will be offline indefinitely.

The effort to avoid a repeat of the costly power outages that plagued the state in 2000 and 2001 includes bringing old plants back online, commissioning new transmission lines and activating a multipronged emergency response system to cut power demand at peak times.

"We're not forecasting blackouts, but during very hot periods, either a very hot day or an extended heat wave, there are going to be challenges in southern California," said Steven Greenlee, a spokesman for the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which manages the power grid that serves 30 million people.

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2012/06/15/with-power-plant-offline-california-scrambles-to-avoid-blackouts/#ixzz1xruMpDDm


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: blackout; california; nuclear; power
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To: mykroar

What can Brown do for you?

Brownouts.

Has Brown done anything to increase power supplies?


21 posted on 06/15/2012 7:50:54 AM PDT by pogo101
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To: mykroar

Fire the liberal “dirt-firsters” and your lights will come back on.


22 posted on 06/15/2012 7:59:14 AM PDT by G Larry
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To: HIDEK6

Not many leftists would understand that you can’t build a windmill using the power that a windmill produces...

however, that’s not what it’s about.

Windmills are for generating false righteousness,
not for generating electricity.


23 posted on 06/15/2012 8:06:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
Windmills are for generating false righteousness, not for generating electricity.

True, but they're also great for generating tax credits and subsidies....aka you and me paying for somebody else's folly.

24 posted on 06/15/2012 8:10:05 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

The credits and subsidies exist because of folks’ desire for false righteousness.

And for the people that use the sheeperals’ need for righteousness without God,
“green” means MONEY to their cronies and donors.


25 posted on 06/15/2012 8:16:00 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Moonman62

It’s not the Gore types that we have to have feel the pain,
but those sheeperals that empower them.


26 posted on 06/15/2012 8:17:24 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: mykroar
"We're not forecasting blackouts, but during very hot periods, either a very hot day or an extended heat wave, there are going to be challenges in southern California,"

Ain't that special.

California no longer has blackouts.

They now have "challenges."

And when the "necessarily skyrocketing" bills show up in the homeowners mail will they have a "participation trophy" embossed in the letterhead?



There is no cure for "progressive liberal" stupidity.

NONE.

.progressive liberal

27 posted on 06/15/2012 8:21:53 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: mykroar

Perhaps Governor Brown can discover a way to have his bullet train generate electricity.


28 posted on 06/15/2012 8:27:18 AM PDT by upchuck (Need is not an acceptable lifestyle choice; dependent is not a career. ~ Dr. Tim Nerenz)
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To: mykroar

I guess the solar powered high-speed rail job is about to go over the cliff. huh, Moonbeam?

and the wind whispered ENRONNnnnn


29 posted on 06/15/2012 8:59:51 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: SpaceBar
And so it has come to pass that all the strange stories we heard about soviet satellite states during the 50's and 60's with chronic shortages, high inflation, shoddy infrastrucures, unreliable power, ruthless yet inept leadership, and a laughable press that regurgitated what they were told by the central power structure to hide their criminality, is now firmly established right here in the good ol' US of A.

Yes Conrade, but there is still more to do. By end of the next Maobama Four Year Plan, we should have mass starvation, universal gun control and concentration camps. And ignore the knock on your door at 3:00 am, they are there to help you.

30 posted on 06/15/2012 9:53:58 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: mykroar

And still no libs see a problem with their demands for more plug-in electric cars.


31 posted on 06/15/2012 10:08:02 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mykroar

So let me get this straight, one of the highest revenue generating states in the nation (if not “the” most?) can’t keep the lights on?

When do you think they maybe, just maybe, have a problem?


32 posted on 06/15/2012 11:56:10 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: MrB
"Windmills are for generating false righteousness, not for generating electricity."

That nails it perfectly!

33 posted on 06/15/2012 12:53:27 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (I hate pragmatists!)
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To: cicero2k

The generators were made in NKorea.


34 posted on 06/15/2012 1:43:35 PM PDT by Tees Mom (Nuclear girl)
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To: mykroar

scramble, scramble, sweat, sweat.

How’s that green power ship working out for y’all now?

toughsky-shitskey huh?


35 posted on 06/15/2012 1:47:49 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (You've been screwed by your government.)
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To: trapped_in_LA
Pretty much, they used steel from China

Having experienced some of this Chinese "steel" I've come to the conclusion that the word "steel" just does not translate properly into Chinese. That have some stuff they call "steel", but it isn't.

36 posted on 06/15/2012 1:49:48 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: bassmaner
Wasn’t this a major reason why Gov. Gray Davis was recalled?

Davis' major blunder was trying to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

37 posted on 06/15/2012 1:49:48 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$ or PETA.)
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