Calpine has been sending me copies of SJMN articles and letters indicating the need for more electricity, and alerts from CAISO. They never mentioned this one which shows what may lie in our future when there are no more oil generation units and everybody is trying to burn gas.

http://oasis2.caiso.com/newsroom/releases/index.html

ARCTIC COLD FRONT PUSHES NATURAL GAS SUPPLIES TO THE LIMIT Cal-ISO Responds with Stage Two Emergency (Folsom, CA) With natural gas in short supply and icy cold temperatures continuing in the Western United States, the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) called for a Stage Two Emergency at 7:20 a.m. today, Monday, December 21, 1998, triggering the reduction of power demand on the state's transmission system. Frigid cold in the Northwestern states extending down into Northern California is temporarily causing shortages of natural gas due to heating demands. The shortfall is affecting the supply of fuel needed to generate electricity at power plants in California, reducing the amount of backup power available. Additional problems have been created by congestion on California's transmission lines as the Southwest states, which are not suffering from the arctic cold, send surplus electricity north via California to the Northwest where power is deficient.

Tim Alton