[Grampa Dave]

Please post your comments, replies and new data to this thread. Thanks.

[Grampa Dave]

This can get us started. Someone with better HTML skills can capture the Casio chart and post it so that it show throughout the day: (Casio Power Status Link)

[Grampa Dave]

This is the official Casio weather prediction link for today: (Casio Weather Link for 10 July 2002)

Again if anyone has the HTML skills to capture this graph in an ongoing display, please do it.

[monkeyshine]

The status of my casio says 7:37 AM. It's been telling perfect time since 1988.

[Timesink]

My Casio's working just fine today, thanks!

[hauerf]

Cool link. Thank you.

Maybe if enough of us pool our money to give Grey Doofus a nice campaign contribution, he'll let us have some more generating capacity in California. I'm thinking $100,000 is about what he would want to extort to loosen the reins on one or two proposed plants.

[Robert357]

Thank you for starting things off. It is amazing how many additional MW's of power they have lined up for today. I think later this morning I will check and see which unplanned outages have been fixed or it they are importing to beat the band. It looked like late last night they started importing a lot more power from the PNW.

Hopefully, I will also get a response from the ISO Communications director, but given quasi-state government, I don't expect an answer until next week.

My take is that they have enough additional generation available to cover today unless they have some large unplanned outages.

The LA Times & SacBee are the only papers I saw that called yesterday an Emergency. Even the times in its local page had one article calling it an Alert and another calling it an Emergency. I expect today to be an Alert kind of day.

[NorseWood]

The Associated Press says thast the County of Los Angeles has issued an Extreme Advisory Alert:

"The peak demand for electricity is expected to come at about 4 p.m. today and crest at some 40,402 megawatts.

Because both Northern and Southern California will be hot today, the coincidental high peak demand could produce the biggest electrical loads the state has seen so far this year.

Lower import levels, power plant outages and the residual heat build-up that comes from a lengthy heat wave are all prompting the California ISO to call on consumers to curtail their use of electricity through Thursday."

Cranking up the heat on Greyout Davis!

[socal_parrot]

Looks as if we'll be within 2% of demand from 3 to 4. Will the ISO issue an alert? Last year, everytime we went to Stage 1, it was like the world was ending to the media. Yesterday's Stage 1 received very little notice on the news. You don't think the media would soft peddle this to help Gray Davis, do you? Hmmmmm....

[socal_parrot]

Stage One Emergency just issued at 2:30. It is scheduled to last until 5:59. Two days in a row.