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Yes, exactly.

Enron purposefully caused brownouts throughout the western US as part of their price-manipulation schemes.[0] . They shutdown a power plant in direct contravention of a federal order to maintain full output to help with the (enron-induced) crisis.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/us/tapes-show-enron-arrang...



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