With wildfires, threatened transmission systems and triple digit statewide temperatures, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) ended another week of consecutive all-time peak-demand records, topping the 45,000 MW level twice, but managing to avoid calling any power alerts.
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CA Merchant Plant Survives Court Challenge
The first merchant electric generating plant proposed followingindustry restructuring in California more than three years agofinessed a crucial court challenge Tuesday and moved toward aconstruction start-up early next year on a $300-350 million, 700 MWplant on a former Air Force base in the high desert 75 milesnortheast of Los Angeles.
CA Merchant Plant Survives Court Challenge
The first merchant electric generating plant proposed followingindustry restructuring in California more than three years agofinessed a crucial court challenge Tuesday and moved toward aconstruction start-up early next year on a $300-350 million, 700 MWplant on a former Air Force base in the high desert 75 milesnortheast of Los Angeles.
CMS Survives Warm Year; Looks to Future
Despite the warmest year since 1921 in Michigan and a poorfourth quarter, CMS Energy announced a growth in net income to $284million, or $2.65 per share, in 1998 from $244 million, or $2.39per share, in 1997. The company credited improvements in both itsutility and international energy businesses as reasons for thegrowth.