Does this mean that the Power Authority is buying power on its own...and attempting to re-sell it to the DWR? One question: "Why?"
Or does it mean that the Power Authority is trying to negotiate a speculative contract for energy-producing facilities it hasn't yet built (nor has been funded to build)? Yet one more reason to ask: "Why?"
And they are sharing a consultant with their putative customer, which is yet another state agency? Who, for heaven's sake is doing what to who? And, of course, "Why?"
Gray Davis couldn't run a neighborhood lemonade stand. So, why in hell is he allowed to "run" California?
DWR needs to buy some power in the spot market, that is why if theoretically had the skill to step into the ISO's shoes. In reality, DWR was way out of its league in terms of skill and scope.
The Power Authority was suppose to be set up with consultants and skilled folks so that it would be able to play in the big leagues with the big boys in the buying and selling of power. It is now an expensive toy, waiting to be activated. It likely will never be fully activated as this thing is looking more and more like it will collapse pretty soon.
I'll tell you "why in hell!" CA's taxpaying/voting Citizens need ritalin more than any little kids in school!!!
There is a virtual epidemic of Attention Deficit Disorder to matters of good government in this state. Especially, since Repellicans have totally splintered and self-destructed.
If each and every Californian, (American, for that matter) were to dedicate at least as much time and attention as it costs them to earn the money to pay the plethora of hidden and non-hidden taxes, to simply going to public meetings and looking into specific subjects like we do here... or finding ways to figure out simple things like voting for bonds is paying more taxes with the added burden of interest... Dummies like Davis and most of his corrupt Demonicrat cronies would be out on their collective asses in a New York minute!!!
Plus, if we actually had an objective media, these phoney phools could never get away with this crapola in the Crapitol! I mean Geeze... Jerry Brown had the conflict of interest laws toughened severly, then a Demonicrat Superintendent of Public Instruction gets nailed by it and does State prison time, but do any of these Gray Davis staffers and consultants with conflicts far surpassing Mr. Honig's face any threat of prison? NOT!!!
The poor people that are paying attention are becoming so desensitized by the blatant, arrogant corrupt bastards exercising audacity in their abuse of emergency powers to circumvent the "Sunshine Laws" that they just hunker in the bunker and quit even trying to think about it.
Disgusting!!!