Although reactor 3 of San Onofre had been serviced early, a fire there has delayed it restart, at its 1,100 megawatt power. It will not restart until June. The Qualifying Facilities are small generators not listed in the ISO outage page. On May 30 they had 900 megawatts out, although that can change rapidly. California has not built a new power plant in the last ten years.
Some new ones are now under construction.
Part of the reason is that residents do not want power plants or power lines in their residential or business areas. California is now finding some 3,000 megawatts a day from out of state. The rolling blackouts have been mainly in Northern California because Southern California has enough power, but there is not sufficient power lines to carry more power to Northern California. Despite President Bush's call to forgo environmental restrictions, they only affect one plant, and the restrictions are federal. There is also much reluctance to sell to the California utilities, which have been forgoing payments.