08-19-2003, 06:11 AM
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This vexes me. I am terribly vexed.
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But wait! There's more!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Aug16.html
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The Bush administration intends to side with a Senate Republican attempt to freeze a disputed regulatory proposal meant to strengthen the nation's aging power transmission system, which was blamed in last week's massive blackout, a senior administration official said yesterday.
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This was said after the blackout.
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The FERC proposal would open up transmission networks to a freer flow of electric power from around the country to crowded urban areas. Utilities and other power companies would be required to join independent transmission-operating organizations that would control the flow of power across state and regional lines.
The rules would answer such fundamental questions as who decides when more transmission upgrades are needed and who pays the tens of billions of dollars needed to make the grid improvements. Backing FERC's rules are companies, including Exelon, Entergy, Duke Power, New England Electric Utility System and Southern California Edison, that want or need to have a larger flow of electricity across state and regional boundaries. Pepco has not taken a position on the legislation.
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