Northern California Power Surges on Transmission Failure
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Average on-peak wholesale power in California’s northern hub, which serves San Francisco, is on track to reach the highest level of the year after a transmission failure limited the amount of electricity that could be brought into the region.
“An unplanned outage to the main transmission line that brings electricity imports from the Pacific Northwest into the California wholesale power market has curtailed flows to levels below what was scheduled,” Chris DaCosta, a Boston-based power market analyst for Genscape Inc. who tracks real-time data in the California market, said in an e-mail. “There is a greater pull on the southern portion of the state.”