California Faces Power Grid Concerns Amid Heat Wave
As California bakes in a summer heat wave, operators of the state's power grid are urging conservation, but they expect to meet electricity demands through the Fourth of July.More here.
Officials are concerned about supplies on Thursday, which is expected to be the hottest day of the week.
"And it's not only in relationship to the hot weather" which prompts the conservation message said Greg Fishman of the Independent System Operator, which oversees the state's power grid. "We had a couple of incidents in Southern California (Tuesday) that impacted the system."
A plane crash into high-voltage transmission lines stressed California's power grid Tuesday as inland areas sizzled in a summer heat wave that raised public health and fire worries.
The crash into the San Diego-area electrical lines and an apparently unrelated loss of 1,900 megawatts of generation from several Southern California power plants led operators of the state's power grid to call for statewide conservation into the evening hours.
posted by Fergie @ 7/03/2007 11:15:00 PM
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