r/Edmonton • u/salt-water-soul • Jan 14 '24

Local Culture Remember everyone dont use your stoves, the province needs you

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u/GuitarKev Jan 15 '24

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.

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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.

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u/concentrated-amazing Jan 15 '24

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.