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If you're referring to the CA electricity crises of 2000/2001, these were caused by Enron manipulating energy supply.[1] Smartest Men in the Room is a great bo
by tyre 10y ago
If you're referring to the CA electricity crises of 2000/2001, these were caused by Enron manipulating energy supply.[1]
Smartest Men in the Room is a great book about Enron's history.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
- jack9 10y agoBut not the subsequent ones? "the ISO has imposed short rotating outages in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2015, mostly related to unexpected transmission line or power plant outages during periods of unusually high demand." - Rueters
- jmanderley 10y agoThat sounds like an issue of transmission capacity and redundancy, not energy production.
- jedberg 10y agoAt that time yes, but the point was being too close to peak generation is cause for concern, so having an overhead is a good thing and hard to predict in the timescales it takes to approve and build a power plant.