Myth concerning CA power shortagegreenspun.com : LUSENET : Grassroots Information Coordination Center (GICC) : One Thread |
Myth: A 10-year dearth of power plant construction has left California in a chronic power shortage.Beginning in November, up to a third of the state's generators went off-line. Discounting hydroelectric and nuclear plants, the rate of "outage" at privately owned generators has exceeded 50 percent for much of the winter.
North County Times
-- spider (spider@web.com), August 28, 2001