New Website Shows California Electricity Supply and Demand in Real Time
The new Berkeley website at http://energycrisis.lbl.gov shows minute-to-minute changes in California's supply and demand balance.
"This site shows, in one place for the first time, California electricity demand, availability of power within the state, power imports and exports, and capacity out of service in real time," says Berkeley Lab scientist Alan Meier, who headed the website's development team. "Using this site," he adds, "consumers will be able to respond to the electricity crisis by reducing their power consumption when it's most important."