SoCal power outage

Highbury · 09-08-11, 06:47 PM

My wife is in SD right now visiting family and I just got a text from her that the power is out for alot of the city. Checking online it looks like it is huge.

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A major power outage has spread across San Diego County and the West, from south of the Mexican border to Orange County and east to Arizona.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...-diego-county/

Platapus · 09-08-11, 07:20 PM

When you restrict yourselves to producing a finite amount of electrical power, but at the same time, have a figuratively infinite demand for electrical power, someone is gonna lose.

I-25 · 09-08-11, 07:35 PM

Im In Mexico right now and the whole State of Baja California is also without power. whatever this is its something big...

Highbury · 09-08-11, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

When you restrict yourselves to producing a finite amount of electrical power, but at the same time, have a figuratively infinite demand for electrical power, someone is gonna lose.

Actual demand was pretty close to forecast demand, both well below available resources.

http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html

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09-08-11, 07:35 PM	#3
I-25 Commodore Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Bavaria, Germany Posts: 629 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	Im In Mexico right now and the whole State of Baja California is also without power. whatever this is its something big...