Talk about a cover-up!
Thought I would add this additional Dow Jones NewsWire story on Southern California Edison as it fills out some of the detail on the Path 26 problem the ISO has been having and that load was curtailed for two hours.
Dow Jones Business News
CAISO:1 Of 2 Path 26 Pwr Lines Back, Fire Threat Remains
Wednesday September 4, 2:55 pm ET
LOS ANGELES -(Dow Jones)- One of the two Path 26 power lines that was taken out of service Tuesday due to fire is back on line Wednesday, but the fire threat to all three lines remains, a spokeswoman for the Independent System Operator said.
Capacity on the two north-south lines, operated by Edison International (NYSE:EIX - News) unit Southern California Edison, is now 2600 megawatts, up from a derate of 500 MW earlier Wednesday morning, said spokeswoman Stephanie McCorkle.
"Line two is back in service but the winds did shift. We are watching lines two and three very carefully. We are not sure if we will be able to get line one back today," McCorkle said.
As reported, the ISO Tuesday directed SoCal Edison to call two hours of voluntary outages for its 700 megawatts of interruptible customers because two of the three power lines were down. Interruptible customers pay lower electricity rates in exchange for cutting power use when asked.
It's rare for all three Path 26 lines to be threatened at once, McCorkle said.
"This is the first time this summer where we have one line down and two threatened. There is some fear, because the wind shift is not working in our favor right now. If we lose those lines, we will see a huge impact" on the grid, McCorkle said.
The 14,600-acre Azusa fire, ignited Sunday, is burning about 25 miles northeast of Los Angeles and is about 10% contained."
-By Jessica Berthold, Dow Jones Newswires; 323-658-3872; jessica.berthold@dowjones.com