Rolling Blackouts?

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MedDawg

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Just got a call from my wife saying the power is out at home. A minute later got a text from TVA saying they are implementing, for the first time, Step 50 of their emergency load curtailment plan and that power will be off for 30 minutes. I guess this is the new normal?

I forgot to mention we live just east of Starkville.
Probably OM grads messing with Starkville. Same ones who built 4-lane roads to nowhere.
 

Bobby Ricigliano

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Again.... you will use the same amount per hour if it never shuts down. All the while, TVA systems (nuke, coal, natural gas, solar/wind) are producing electricity every minute of every hour.

understand yet?
While an individual’s power usage might hit a limit, you have to consider the impact of everyone’s heating systems not cycling off as often. That makes the average power demand across the system increase, taxing the grid.
 
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