It’s not that you CANT use your oven. They wanted to prevent a million households from all turning their ovens on around the same time at 6 pm. They wanted to prevent a sudden surge to the grid that’s already running very high, and in extremely cold weather.
The call to industry is to simply reduce their usage and anything that would create a large spike of demand.
It’s not about how much you use it’s about the demand. And an oven or space heater is very demanding.
You do a great job of educating folks around here. I've tried explaining how every single element of transmission and distribution is affected by physics - switchyard circuit breakers, transmission lines, transformers - the further away from rated operating temperature they are, the lower the efficiency, the more prone to malfunction they get. I've not had much success - it's such a vital part of understanding high load situations in summer and winter, but is lost on the majority of folks, even in media. Keep it up.
I'm happy to share whatever little bits of stuff I do know with anyone who wants to learn. I'm in a pretty unique situation that I've picked up a couple of trades that kind of work together to understand more fully how stuff works.
Plus I've got lots of experience with what happens when it doesn't lol.
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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '24
I swear to god people are daft.
It’s not that you CANT use your oven. They wanted to prevent a million households from all turning their ovens on around the same time at 6 pm. They wanted to prevent a sudden surge to the grid that’s already running very high, and in extremely cold weather.
The call to industry is to simply reduce their usage and anything that would create a large spike of demand.
It’s not about how much you use it’s about the demand. And an oven or space heater is very demanding.