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Demand has been rising.

System conditions

-- spider (spider@web.com), August 16, 2001

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Check out the dip in capacity!

-- spider (spider@web.com), August 16, 2001.

Neat. Perhaps some power plant(s) somewhere dropped off-line for a little while? So I assume it's exactly that sort of drop in capacity at the wrong moment (say, at the peak of the demand curve late in the day) that could lead to abrupt brownouts and blackouts?

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), August 17, 2001.

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