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Friday January 7, 2:11 pm Eastern Time

Mont. Colstrip 740-MW Unit 4 seen shut on Friday

LOS ANGELES, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The 740-megawatt unit 4 at the Colstrip coal-fired plant in Montana is being taken off line on Friday for maintenance, market sources said.

The plant should return to service early next week, they added.

A plant spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

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Me says: "not y2k related"

-- Me (me@me.me), January 07, 2000

Answers

Can this count toward John H. Krempasky's crap-out total of 10?

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), January 07, 2000.

No wonder the grid is "stessing out" as reported by MSNBC and posted a few threads above. Clinton as Captian Hook: "Methinks me sees the spark, the gleam, the glimmer, of a plan; By which I may redeem my fallen honor ... as a man!"

O'Hare has been on standby-backup gereator power since the rollover. Presumably all other airport control towers are as well, to maintin the voltage [??? sorry no EE] to sensitive equipment, as the grid was predicted to become unstable. As more and more plants and reactors begin to shut down{Krempasky's T- Countdown ...] and hydro-power resources (H2O) diminsh, indeed the grid cannot maintain the reliability we're used to, or reliabilty necessary for operation of sensitive e equipment ... so we get the voltage spikes and surges that have been compiled here at TB2000 (thread was DELETED by accident though).

MY SWAG: As water runs out in the northwest reservoirs so that hydro- electric cannot be generated and diverted/sold to compensate for these downed generators and reactors, we will see more and more outages like the one last night in Tampa Bay, FL and they will last longer and longer: rolling brownouts, maybe. Meanwhile, DOE will spin this as "stress on the grid" "erosion of the infrastructure" and unrelated to Y2K. My guess is Richardson's visit to Bonneville on 9.9.99 ahd more to do with implementation of a plan like this, than on merely being available to witness backup-communications tests.

Rip me limb from limb!!

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-- (squirrel@huntr.com), January 07, 2000.

Puddin...

Not a nuke plant, doesn't count.

And it's a scheduled outage anyway :-)

-- John H Krempasky (johnk@dmv.com), January 07, 2000.

I think the NW and NE are due for wet weather. Don't think lack of water is going to be one of our problems. Too much, more likely.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), January 07, 2000.

A "scheduled" outage?

Ask anyone who's ever bought or sold anything on eBay about "scheduled" outages.

By the way, the "no comment" struck me as quite telling. If it *was* a No Big Deal deal, I'm sure there would have been an on the record comment at the ready.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), January 07, 2000.

John -

You say it's a scheduled outage. Why?

I just posted it as it showed up in "breaking news" on the Yahoo, quotes main page. I don't know how to check to see if it's "scheduled" but I guessed it might not be. I don't think a "scheduled" shutdown usually counts as "news". Neither do I think that a comment like "plant spokesman not available for comment" is appropriate if this were in fact a scheduled shutdown.

Something here does not seem right. I don't know what. I just know that the markets do not consider normal maintenance as "news". Perhaps a newservice error. I don't know.

-- Me (me@me.me), January 07, 2000.

A scheduled outage is when someone says "Plant X will be shut down on date Y".

That so hard to understand?

Nuke plants have scheduled outages for refueling a lot.

I suspect coal-fired plants do actually shut down for maintenance from time to time.

What has been discussed in terms of Nuke plant outages recently were unscheduled outages, where a problem caused it to automatically shut down or have to be manually shut down...suddenly.

-- John H Krempasky (johnk@dmv.com), January 07, 2000.

John -

You wrote: "A scheduled outage is when someone says "Plant X will be shut down on date Y". That so hard to understand?"

I am not certain why your response is so caustic. There is no reason for such an assinine retort. You are, for whatever reason, trying to prove your intelligence to this board. Posts such as above do not advance your case.

As I said, I do not know if the shutdown was scheduled or not. Perhaps from now on the *market* newswires will report ongoing maintenance. I doubt it. Someone thought this a newsworthy piece - something that investors may wish to give consideration to. They may have been wrong. You certainly are.

Rueters:

-- Me (me@me.me), January 07, 2000.

My dear Mr. Me,

Sir, from the text of you post. Coal Strip is just having a minor turn-a-round on their unit four. I say minor; because a through turn-a-round would take anywhere from three to five weeks.

Man! It was cold as the devil up at Coal Strip in the winter of 76'!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), January 08, 2000.