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Now many of you will think so what, a simple problem and no obvious cause. Well what if you looked back a week ago and found out that the same thing happened on March 2nd. Would you think, hey its OK to let a transmission line fail until the cause becomes obvious?

I for one hope the FERC steps in and takes charge of the management of the Cal ISO as it is jeopardizing the entire west coast power grid with the way they do not make sure that problems get fixed and the way the ISO does not follow reliability requirements.

For those that want details please check out essentially the same failure roughly a week ago and documented in the following Daily Report of System Status for March 3, 2003

Click here for March 3rd Achieved report

Sunday’s Notable Events: From 0547-0609 PST the CFE was separated from the CISO and the Western Interconnection when the Miguel-Tijuana 230-kV Line relayed. The Imperial Valley-Rosita 230-kV line was out of service for scheduled work. Cause was unknown.

For those interested CFE stands for Comision Federal de Electricidad

Thought that you might be interested in learning that the California ISO is still not controlling the electric transmission system it is suppose to regulate.

The entire California power system seems to be held together by bailing wire and chewing gum. This bodes really poorly for what is likely to happen when peak loads occur on the system.