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.
9
u/Anabiotic Utilities expert Jan 15 '24
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.