PG&E Pacific DC Intertie - on/off/volume data

[iamchmod]

I thought someone on this board might have some feedback for me

A friend of mine's company has a few magnetometer sensors near the PG&E Pacific DC Intertie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie) and with the sensors they can tell when this line comes on, turns off and what level of power is running.

Are there any energy traders that would find knowing what energy level this route is running useful to trade on? eg is that data valuable? And if the data/info on that particular line isn't that valuable, is there another line that would be?

 

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[Sig]

To answer the OP's question, this data is of no value because the real-time power flows are already publically available from the ISO (http://www.caiso.com/)

 

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