California ISO Calls for Conservation as Southern California Heat Wave Sparks Stage One Emergency.News Editors FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004 Hot temperatures in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, are driving the demand for electricity to unusually high levels for this early in the year, necessitating a Stage One Electrical Emergency today at 1:50 p.m. The Stage One gives the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. additional authority to require power plants and transmission owners to respond to ISO instructions. "Temperatures are running about 10 degrees above forecast in Southern California," said Jim Detmers, Vice President for Operations at the California ISO. "We also had 770 megawatts of power plants trip out of service this morning. When outages coincide with high loads, we can quickly run out of options. The Stage One Emergency declaration gives us some more alternatives to draw from." The general public can help out by avoiding the use of heavy electrical appliances and keeping the thermostat thermostat, automatic device that regulates temperature in an enclosed area by controlling heating or refrigerating systems. It is commonly connected to one of these systems, turning it on or off in order to maintain a predetermined temperature. no lower than 78 degrees between the hours of 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. today. The California ISO is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation charged with managing the flow of electricity along California's open-market wholesale power grid. The mission of the California ISO is to safeguard the reliable delivery of electricity, and ensure equal access to more than 25,000 circuit miles of "electron highway". As the impartial Favoring neither; disinterested; treating all alike; unbiased; equitable, fair, and just. operator of the wholesale power grid in the state, the California ISO conducts a small portion of the bulk power markets. These markets are used to allocate To reserve a resource such as memory or disk. See memory allocation. space on the transmission lines, maintain operating reserves In power systems, the operating reserve is the generating capacity available to the system operator within a short interval of time to meet demand in case a generator is lost or there is another disruption to the supply. and match supply with demand in real time. |
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