Strange Electricl Loads Graph on Cal-ISO website

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This will probably be corrected, but at 07:30 this morning (4/4/2001), take a look at the spikes --

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

Solar flare activity?

Can some one capture and post it, I don't know how.

-- PHO (owennos@bigfoot.com), April 04, 2001

Answers

Strange indeed! Isn't it today that a solar flare of unprecedented magnitude should reach Earth? Two days ago, one was discovered that basically was "off the charts" according to the Drudge report. Swissrose.

-- Swissrose (cellier3@mindspring.com), April 04, 2001.

http://www.caiso.com/docs/09003a6080/0c/e9/09003a60800ce992.html

see the plants that were off line yesterday: 14GW, half planned

the image will be loaded in about twenty minutes

-- (perry@ofuzzy1.com), April 04, 2001.


This does coincide with a coronal mass
ejection from the sun. If this hit during
a time when the load was near maximum, the
grid would have crashed and the western
States would have been blacked out for a
week.

Times are in Universal Time which are 9 hours
earlier than PDT.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), April 04, 2001.


I corrected for Daylight Time the wrong
way. PDT is 7 hours earlier than UT.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), April 04, 2001.

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