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You think that it is bad in about to be dark Kali, just wait until this Watermelon Blackout Kali Bill starts to have an impact: (California adopted the nation's most ambitious renewable-energy goals Thursday, when Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill requiring that 20 percent of utilities' electricity be produced from renewable sources, such as solar, wind and geothermal, by 2017. )

Glad you liked the article. Isn't it great how they can change the rules for how long power plant permits are good for (before they expire), not be able to run the system they already have (the Cal ISO) and then decide that they want to change things dramatically (20% renewables) and then expect the lights to stay on! Amazing!

Seriously, if you add up how much renewable hydro is used by California that comes from the British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, 20% might not be that hard to attain (in a year with no drought). Of course, we all know that hydro is not being considered a clean renewable as dams are evil fish killers. So California will obviously need to look elsewhere for its 20% solution!

Headline News 2017...

The 300,000th CAL (Cows Ass Lighting) Power system was hooked up today to Jedediah Brimstones rammed earth house. When asked about the system, which produces gas for lighting, cooking and heating via a tube tethered to a leased bovines rectum, Mr. Brimstone remarked that "The smell gits a little ripe sometimes, and the lights flicker when the missus milks with cold hands, but all in all its way better than spending $10,000 a month on those fancy 'lectrical systems.

In the spirit of "Oops I did it again," I thought that I would update the group to a little thing that happend over the weekend. It was on Monday's Cal ISO Oasis Website in the Operations Notices:

09/15 14:04:34000 1345 PAST: WACM requested level 4 (step 9) contributing schedule curtailments per the WSCC Procedure to relieve excessive flow across Path 31. Path limit 413 MW, actual 408 MW and scheduled 342XX MW. USF 220 MW CCW.

From reading the posts it sounds like the guys at the ISO had some problems with making the little electrons go where they wanted them. Then later in the weekend another problem jumped up that had to do with the scheduling system not working.

I would like to restate, that the Cal ISO is going to cause a major west coast blackout (besides the one California is responsible for in Vegas). This is serious stuff and they are not getting their act together. The more stuff I see, the more it is clear that there are real problems. The more problems that don't get solved the more I want FERC to come in and change the management structure of the ISO.