"I felt like we had failed," said director of grid operations Jim
Detmers in a pained voice. "In my mind, I pictured people stranded
in elevators. I pictured people stranded in stores and checkout
lines. All I could think of was the Inconvenience, and I'm sitting
here thinking...thinking, what rock did we not look under to maybe
prevent this?"
As the focal point of an unprecedented power crisis that has
tarnished the Golden State, the California Independent System
Operator (California ISO) carries the mixed burden of being a
disaster survivor. Established to maintain electrical system
reliability for the world's fifth-largest economy, California ISO
has been both praised and vilified for its efforts amidst the chaos
of blackouts, price volatility, political backlash, and market
manipulations by Enron and other ruthless competitors.
This book chronicles how the California ISO came to be and what
happened during its first five years.
More importantly, though, this is the story of the people who
make up California ISO and give it an identifiable character and
culture--its soul. The result is a very human drama that is
otherwise unavailable from the regulatory record or media accounts
of California's unparalleled power emergency.
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