hmmmmm..I live in Los Angeles and when Enron was busy turning off the grid in Santa Monica and Pasadena my good old Department of Water and Power kept chugging along.

"Department of Water and Power kept chugging along."

Yeah, like good old TVA keeps rolling along as well, despite being 'public power'. I believe that LADWP was run at that time by a former Chattanoogan and TVA board chairman, S David Freeman.

S David Freeman.

Yea- Freedman introduced several important fixes the LADWP, he laid off several employees and cut expenses, the unions whined but the mayor was Republican and the councilman felt that they had no choice because of the debt load the dept was running.

The best move he made was sticking the the general plan, thats estimated the amount of population the city proper would have then aquiring the power to match it before useage.

The plan went under fire in the early 90's when the population was declining (riots, earthquakes) but the dept stuck to it and acquired 50% ownership in two Utah coal power plants. Had a private firm been in change the plants would have never been bought and Enron would have the city shut down literally.

Freeman before he left had a solar program in place and wanted to create local gas power plants. I guess it would be powered with LNG. I don't think the plan went anywhere.