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Article: California Energy Crisis Worsens as Nearby States Refuse to Share Power.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- December 18, 2000
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Dec. 19--As if rocketing electricity prices and the increasing threat of blackouts weren't enough, California now faces a growing reluctance among its neighbors to share their power, because of an energy crunch across the West.
Officials from a number of Western states plan to meet in Denver Wednesday to confer with U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson on the problem. Among other things, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington have implored the federal government to impose a wholesale price cap throughout the West, in hopes of getting prices under control.
But so far, federal officials have balked at that request. And even if such a cap were ...