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Old 08-20-2009, 01:29 PM   #30
yads
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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc View Post
Theoretically this could happen here, seeing as Enmax/Epcor own the lions share of generation, but I think they have to submit maintenance schedules to the Power Pool. They can't shut down unexpectedly unless it is a major issue.

More importantly like I said earlier, traders of a company like Enmax or Epcor are not allowed to have advance knowledge of outages. It's a serious infraction. So in a perfect world, if Enmax decided to just take a power plant off line for the hell of it. They would be screwing themselves, since their traders likely committed to delivering energy at a certain price and now they would have to import energy or buy it at the spot rate which would be higher due to the outage.
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