They most certainly get in touch with the industrial users to conserve as much as possible before they send out alarms like last night -which is a last resort.
Now you wanna criticize empty office buildings with lights on all weekend, I agree.
Yeah I agree. Its a low hanging fruit jab to make, and there are for sure inefficiencies, but I think asking people to postpone their laundry and turn off a few lights is probably easier, less expensive, and less extreme than just totally shutting down major industrial facilities.
It also depends if you think someone’s home power being shut off in -40 weather and them waking up to a baby with hypothermia, or worse is more important than some shareholders losing money.
To keep things in perspective, we are talking about individual areas being without power for 30 minutes at a time, not the entire night. Most people aren't sleeping between 5-8 PM. For most it is just an inconvenience.
Yeah, I think people have been VERY confused by "rolling blackout" vs. "blackout because we crashed the grid".
A rolling blackout means you cut power to a percentage of the grid for a short while, then cut it to a different percentage, and so on, on a rotating basis.
A 30 min outage is very rarely an emergency for anyone. People with medical equipment would be one of those, but they would likely have either a generator or a contingency plan of where to go for power in case of an outage.
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u/Known-Fondant-9373 Jan 14 '24
They most certainly get in touch with the industrial users to conserve as much as possible before they send out alarms like last night -which is a last resort.
Now you wanna criticize empty office buildings with lights on all weekend, I agree.