California ISO Declares Thursday, July 14 Flex Your Power NOW! Power Watch Day.FOLSOM Fol·som adj. Of or relating to a culture that flourished in western North America east of the Rocky Mountains during the late Pleistocene Epoch, notable chiefly for the use of grooved, leaf-shaped flint projectile points. , Calif. -- The California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). 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. is declaring Thursday Thursday: see week. , July July: see month. 14, a Flex A development system for Flash-based applications from Adobe. Introduced in 2004 as a J2EE application, Flex compiles ActionScript code and XML-based user interface descriptions (MXML) into binary Flash files (SWF files). Your Power NOW! day and is asking all Californians to reduce energy usage tomorrow afternoon. Thursday will be the fourth day of the first major heat wave this summer and energy peak demand is expected to break records. The forecast calls for demand to top out at 46,182 megawatts at about 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. The current record for peak demand, 45,597 megawatts, was set September 8, 2004. The ISO does not anticipate any major issues in meeting the expected demand, but the ISO system will be heavily loaded. If there is a contingency contingency n. an event that might not occur. of some kind that forces a transmission line or power plant out of service the ISO would have few options available to deal with that event. Conservation -- especially across the afternoon peak hours peak hours npl, peak period n → horas fpl punta peak hours peak npl → heures fpl d'affluence or de pointe -- can help reduce the demand and give the ISO some additional options. Visit www.fypower.com for other information and conservation tips.
Stage One: Possible Stage Two: Unlikely Stage Three: Unlikely
24-Hour Outlook for Friday, July 15th
California ISO Declares a
Flex Your Power NOW! Power Watch Day
Friday July 15 will also be a Flex Your Power Now! Day with the peak demand forecast of 46,573 megawatts. Conservation again will be highly important to reducing the demand across the peak hours-roughly 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Stage One: Possible Stage Two: Unlikely Stage Three: Unlikely This advisory is based on the best data available at the time of its release. Grid conditions can change rapidly. Information about the electricity supply within the California ISO's control area and the current demand on the system is available at http://www.caiso.com.
Flex Your Power NOW!
Powerful Habits
-- Set thermostat at 78 degrees or higher
-- Cool with fans
-- Draw the drapes
-- Turn off unnecessary lights and appliances
-- Use big appliances in early morning or late at night
California ISO
Stage One Emergency
Consumers are urged to reduce their use of electricity voluntarily
to avoid severe conditions.
Stage Two Emergency
Voluntary interruption of service to select customers is possible
to avoid more severe conditions.
Stage Three Emergency
Consumers are advised that involuntary interruptions of service
have begun and will continue until the emergency has passed.
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