By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net Even if the city of Independence still had the Blue Valley Power Plant operating, and it ran at full capacity last week, Independence Power & Light wouldn’t have avoided the rolling blackouts that caused much consternation for two days. The temporary blackouts, called for by the Southwest Power Pool to avoid grid failures that would cause much larger and longer blackouts, hit a little more than half of IPL’s customers for short periods of time, and any utility across the Central Plains with SPP had to issue them, IPL Director Jim Nail said.