Ye Hua was stunned for a while and listened to Cheng Manlou's brief explanation of the reasons. This unexpected power outage was more serious than the one in 2003.
Do Americans also like symmetry?
There was a major blackout in the eastern region in 2003, and now the western region is also experiencing a blackout. It's really neat.
After pondering for a while, Ye Hua made a decision in his mind and immediately responded: "Yes, of course I agree. Such a good living advertisement, I am worried about how the business of Life Ray can be launched in North America."
The communication with Chengmanlou soon ended, and Ye Hua asked Xiaoyin to send an emergency notice to the operations department of Life Ray, ready to increase the energy level output of the wireless transmission tower to the space-based system at any time, and expedite the deployment of some
The satellite resources made an emergency change of orbit and arrived over North America.
The United States and the United States have used diplomatic resources to go to the embassy to plead for mercy. They have to give face to the American emperor. Besides, there are many benefits. As expected, the state power supply center will also receive an emergency notice and actively cooperate in allocating power supply.
Fortunately, it is in China in the middle of the night. If it is during the peak period of electricity consumption during the day, it may not be able to withstand it.
After telling the matter, Ye Hua opened a floating screen to learn about it, thoughtfully.
"It's really strange. It shouldn't be. UHV transmission line failure? Early warning failure leading to chain reactions? It can be established in theory, but it is too far-fetched. The California power crisis has broken out for more than 20 years. The California state government and the California
Thanks to the efforts of Caiso, the operator of the electricity market, more than two decades have passed since the crisis, and the reform of the electric power industry has not failed..."
Ye Hua continued to browse the news from the United States.
The California power crisis occurred in the 2001 energy crisis in the western United States. The situation at the time was that due to market manipulation, the Texas energy company Enron illegally shut down natural gas pipelines to California and regulated retail electricity prices, the United States
California experienced a severe power supply shortage and suffered multiple large-scale blackouts.
The result was that Enron, a business giant that ranked seventh among the top 500 companies in the United States, suddenly declared bankruptcy. The Enron incident was like a bomb that detonated instantly and shocked all walks of life in the United States. This company had an annual revenue of hundreds of billions of dollars and was successfully operating.
Seventy years of the most innovative American energy company collapsed overnight...
No matter what you say, in this accident, Caiso will have to peel off his skin even if he is not dead. The worst possible outcome will be the second Enron.
The direct economic losses caused by this power crisis reached US$50 billion, and the intangible losses are even more incalculable.
Was it really an accident?
While Ye Hua was thinking deeply, Lan Ping quietly came behind him and hugged him, resting her chin on his shoulder, and said boringly: "Where do so many conspiracy theories come from? Don't these things all appear in the plots of bloody novels?
Hit?"
Ye Hua remained motionless, glanced back with his peripheral vision, and said with a smile: "Sometimes reality is more absurd than fiction, because fictional novels are based on a certain logic, while reality... often has no logic at all."
Lan Ping, who was stuck behind him, was too lazy to respond. She turned to come to him and swiped her delicate hand in the air to close the floating display screen.
There are many doors and doors, please enter the urn.
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North America, Santa Monica.
After receiving the authorization from the headquarters, Cheng Manlou no longer had any scruples. He ended the communication and returned to the reception room. Grenavis and others stopped talking.
"Mr. Mayor, you are right, life is precious, and our company is willing to provide help to the best of our ability."
"Great, thank you for your help, I really appreciate it!" Grenavis was in high spirits and immediately stood up to shake hands with him and thank him continuously.
A few minutes later, Chengmanlou immediately notified retail stores in major North American markets, including the Canadian market, to deploy more than 140 wireless terminal generators. Spare generators in retail stores in Canada or the eastern United States were also transported by air to support the west.
The manager of the Santa Monica flagship store came to the store. The retail hall of this flagship store was very popular at the moment, and there was an endless stream of people coming to buy phm-s products.
"I'm sorry, dear users, our store has to suspend operations because the backup radio receiving terminal will be sent to the emergency hospital. People there are in urgent need of help. Without electricity, the operation cannot be performed. Missing the treatment time means a precious
Lives were lost, so we decided to provide power assistance to those who needed it more, and we are deeply sorry for that."
Upon hearing this, hundreds of consumers in the store expressed their understanding and expressed support and praise for Coastline Company's move. This is a great decision.
Soon, people began to leave the retail stores in an orderly manner one after another. 48 retail stores in the western blackout area along the coast took the initiative to cut off power and close operations. The news was also shared online, and major media in North America reported it. In the eastern region,
American netizens are also discussing it.
Ten minutes later, the Shoreline flagship store in Santa Monica officially cut off power and closed its doors. Fifteen minutes later, a helicopter lifted an 800-kilogram radio terminal generator and transported it to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, located in Los Angeles, adjacent to Beaver.
Lee Hill and West Hollywood are the largest non-profit hospitals on the West Coast of the United States.
This generator is turned on at full power and can provide the power supply needs of the entire medical center.
Other radio terminal generators have also been distributed to local emergency medical centers. Coastline's "selfless" act of "benefiting oneself and benefiting others" has undoubtedly greatly gained the favor of the North American people, with a large wave of good people cards and praise and support.
The sound is on the road.
Only the North American authorities are extremely unhappy. If the federal government hadn't been so diligent in negotiating with the Chinese people through diplomatic channels? But they can't say it. Not only can't they say it, but they have to watch the Chinese people raking in reputation points on their own land.
Do you think it’s irritating to give a thumbs up?
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Almost at the same time.
General Electric Group Headquarters.
Chief Executive Officer John Flannery is 1.9 meters tall, with a gray slicked back hair. He works hard and walks swiftly among the crowd. He has a politician-like look in his eyes. He can also exchange a few pleasantries with corporate executives along the way.
He smiled quickly and looked like a very kind old man.
Arriving at the high-level meeting hall within the company, several core members were present. After John came in, the meeting room was closed. This was an internal secret meeting.
Today, GE has been integrated with Apple. There are several large screens in the conference room at the moment, and they are full of big shots. It can be said that they are the small group of people who stand at the top of the pyramid of American society.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is also on a screen.
When John Flannery arrived, GE's core executives greeted him. The big shots on the video link glanced at him, and one of the consortium shareholders said unhurriedly: "Okay, let's drive.
Mr. John?”
John Flannery nodded, organized some words in his mind, and then said:
“Since 1892, GE’s businesses have varied from aircraft engines to plastics to cannons to computers to MRI machines to drill bits for drilling oil fields to desalination equipment to TV shows, movies, credit cards or insurance.
"But large machinery has always been GE's main business, and it is also willing to expand into emerging businesses and divest weak businesses, so it has become one of the rare corporate groups that remains standing when a large number of competitors are disappearing."
"In the Welch era, the secret of GE's success was that it was more like a group of companies operating under the protection of a strong bank. As the financial industry began to further dominate the U.S. economy, the role of subsidiary GE Financial in driving the company's performance growth also increased.
It is becoming more and more obvious. In its heyday, more than half of GE's profits were created by GE Financial. GE Financial was once on par with the largest banks in the United States, competed with the most high-end talents on Wall Street, and hired hundreds of bankers."
"GE Financial eats debt and spits out real money. It provides convenient and sufficient dressing materials to smooth out the holes in quarterly earnings reports and make Wall Street happy. Sometimes, this means that in the quarter
Sell half a parking lot on the last day of the year, or sell part of a power plant and buy it back at the end of the quarter.”
At this time, a man in the video said expressionlessly: "I didn't take time out of my spare time to attend the meeting just to listen to you brag about ge's past glory. Even so, it made Jack Welch's reputation soaring. Now,
Please give us a reason we can trust, a reason worthy of your continued leadership of GE."
John Flannery looked around at the shareholders and said calmly: "GE's business scope is always changing. The Welch era created GE's glory through finance, and I chose energy! The next step is to operate the California independent system
Caiso's merger and acquisition, this western power outage declares the failure of California's power industry reform, because it will become the second Enron..."
Everyone on the video connection looked sideways, and Tim Cook suddenly said in shock: "Are you trying to tell me that the current accident in the West was caused by GE?"
God, that's crazy!
An old man smoking a cigar on another screen said calmly: "Tsk tsk tsk... you hid it from everyone. I'm really curious about what dirty tricks you used to do such a big deal.
I thought you were a pretty clean guy John, I was really blind, but that doesn’t stop me from starting to like you, of course it’s not important, what’s important is profit.”
"No winner is ever clean." John Flannery said with a calm smile, admitting this fact very frankly, because no one would expose it, everyone present was a vested interest, and even Cook did not dare to,
Apple has put all his wealth and life on it, not to mention that he is just a part-time worker, so this kind of thing can only rot in his stomach.
If such a shocking scandal were to come out, both Apple and GE would be doomed, and Berkshire Hathaway would also suffer heavy losses. A large number of investors would be crying and screaming.
The U.S. economy has suffered a heavy blow, leading to an economic recession.
