NEWS UPDATES

CALIFORNIANS LOOK FOR A SILVER LINING IN POWER CRISIS (Newport Beach - AP) 31 March 2001
Jane Ruetze inches her car through Southern California's notorious freeway traffic every day during her three-hour roundtrip commute between her Whittier home and her job 33 miles away.... With California increasingly crowded and congested, some are hoping rolling blackouts and higher utility bills will help keep the state's population in check to maintain a semblance of the famous California lifestyle.

ROLLING BLACKOUTS AGAIN DISRUPT LIFE IN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles - AP) 27 March 2001
State power managers ordered rolling blackouts across California for a second straight day Tuesday, cutting off hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses as demand for electricity exceeded supply. The same factors that collided to strap California's power supply on Monday hit again. Those included reduced electricity imports from the Pacific Northwest, numerous power plants offline for repairs, and less power provided by cash-strapped alternative-energy plants.

ENERGY CRISIS WORSENS (Washington - Knight Ridder Newspapers) 20 March 2001
Power shortages already plaguing California will likely become a national problem, President Bush warns. The nation is heading toward a fully-scale energy crisis and California's power shortgae is the leading edge, Bush administration officials said Monday. "The energy crunch we're in is a suppply-demand issue. We need to reduce demand and increass supply," President Bush said after a White House meeting Monday with the advisors who are putting the finishing touches on his energy proposal.

CALIFORNIANS COULD SEE UP TO A 50% JUMP IN POWER BILLS (Sacramento - AP) 19 March 2001
The state's power purchass for two struggling utilities could cost Billion by the end of next year, leaving customers paying at least 50 percent more for electricity, The Associated Pporess has learned.

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