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In article <3179A998.3FE4@starlink.com>,
Bill Funk  <skypilot@starlink.com> wrote:
}Joe St. Lucas wrote:
}...
}> 
}> Utilities are usually granted a monopoly in an area, so they better
}> have the capacity, except on those three-sigma hot/cold days.
}> I can always go to another gas station that has gas, IF I want to
}> pay a higher price.  I can't get another utility company to pump
}> electricity down my wires if the one doesn't perform.
}> =====
}You don't have to; it happens anyway.
}Local electric utilities are tied together in a nation-wide network,
}so the possibility that any local utility will "run out" of electricity
}is somewhere between slim & none. When a utility starts to get near it's
}capacity, it starts pulling in power from the net, under pre-existing
}contracts.

I'm looking at this on dc.general.  Anyone who has lived in the DC area
knows that isn't so -- rolling blackouts during the summer are
commonplace, and a few years ago there were capacity problems with all the DC
area utilities except Potomac Edison (which told Alcoa to take a few
days off)--- this resulted in rolling blackouts during the winter.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto      russotto@pond.com     russotto@his.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."