Re: OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Ruth,

Thank you for your comments.



--- RuthWeiner@aol.com wrote:

> Actually, John is correct.  Transmission lines are

> not regulated, are owned by utilities and there is

> no way to mandate reliability standards, according

> to the Electric Reliability Council (I think that is

> its name), which is a private industry group.  The

> Reliability Council, according to its spokesman, has

> been trying to get standards made mandatory for many

> years.

> 

> And here is some food for thought for all you

> anti-government-regulation folks out there: 

> Electricity market areas are by and large fixed

> (except for the disastrous California experience);

> e.g., I HAVE to buy electricity from PNM, or

> generate my own.  Do the shareholders in PNM, or the

> PNM executives care if I am without electricity or

> water? Not unless they are personally affected,

> which they most likely aren't.  PNM wants my money,

> and the only control on how much they charge and

> what they deliver for the money is the NM Public

> Utilities Commission.  There is no way at all that

> as a private customer I could require them to

> maintain or upgrade reliable transmission. I have

> nowhere else to go for my electricity or the lines

> it is transmitted on, as PNM knows perfectly well.

> Requirements for reliability would of necessity be a

> government mandate.  This is why electricity was

> regulated in the first place -- to protect the

> consumer, not by some greedy power-hungry

> government.

> 

> I believe that we actually DO have "government by

> the people" and we get the government we vote for.

> So did the citizens and consumers who voted in the

> governments that gave them consumer-owned power,

> public utilities commissions, rural electrification,

> and FERC.    

> 

> Ruth

> 

> 

> 

> -- 

> Ruth F. Weiner

> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 505-856-5011

> (o)505-284-8406

> 





=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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