So, do you want the real reason or my reasons? I'm guessing the real reason is because there isn't enough power being produced to meet the demand. Well, duh.

I think that there are too many people working at too many companies who want too much power because they are too important to the internet or something. Those people also want to use as much power as possible when at home to keep themselves comfortable. The power companies need to churn out as much power as possible to meet these needs and they may or may not actually have the capacity to do so. Who knows if this is cost efficient for the power companies. The latest rumors are that some of the power stations are offline to artificially inflate the cost of power. Basically, we've made a mess.

Fer"turn out that light"rick

> So, I'm reading the news and I see that the state of California is having some pretty major electricity shortage problems. They're talking about controlled, rolling blackouts to conserve power; companies being told they have to cut their power usage; people working in the dark...sounds like a rather messy situation.
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> I live in the midwest where power is plenteous. I've heard of stuff like this happening in second and third world countries, but never in America. Maybe I just haven't been paying attention. I have read stuff before on how the west coast isn't connected to the "national power grid" (whatever that entails) due to the Rockies.
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> There's lots of regulars here from California. Perhaps some of you could enlighten this poor, underinformed egg-no-ray-moose from back east.
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> Gri"would you like some positrons with that, sir?"shny