Save power or face blackouts, Ontarians told
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:41 pm
Hmm maybe I should schedule a system shut down on all machines around peak times. That's like over 600 watts right there, probably. 
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...hub=CTVNewsAt11
The Independent Electricity System Operator, responsible for Ontario's energy system, is warning Ontarians that there could be blackouts if they don't reduce their use of electricity this week.
"The sustained hot weather is resulting in record demands for electricity and places operating limitations on both generation and transmission facilities," Paul Murphy, Chief Operating Officer for the IESO, said in a press release.
Consumers and businesses are asked to voluntarily cut back their energy consumption, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
"If everyone turned off one 100-watt bulb, there's over 4 million houses in Ontario, or 4 million customers in Ontario," Terry Young, a spokesperson for IESO, told CTV News.
"That's 400 megawatts, the equivalent of a coal-fired unit at the [Nanticoke Coal-fired Power Plant]."
Along with turning off lights, other suggestions include setting air conditioners at 26 degrees or higher, closing curtains and blinds to keep out the sun and waiting until late evening to run appliances.
IESO hopes consumers will continue to reduce their use of power until 6 p.m. Friday, July 22.
"Higher consumption will mean higher electricity bills -- any conservation efforts will not only help individual consumers to offset those higher costs, but will help us to maintain reliable service to all consumers," Murphy said in the press release.
Ontario is also suffering through a drought, placing even more demand on the province's energy system, and forcing IESO to import power.
The hot weather not only pushes up demand but can cut back the capacity of transmission facilities, Young explained.
Some hydroelectric plants aren't working at capacity because drought conditions have left them with less water to use.
"If problems develop quickly and unexpectedly then we may have to take action without warning,'' Young added.
"That's something that we're trying to avoid and obviously the more that demand can be reduced the more chance we have of avoiding that."
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...hub=CTVNewsAt11
The Independent Electricity System Operator, responsible for Ontario's energy system, is warning Ontarians that there could be blackouts if they don't reduce their use of electricity this week.
"The sustained hot weather is resulting in record demands for electricity and places operating limitations on both generation and transmission facilities," Paul Murphy, Chief Operating Officer for the IESO, said in a press release.
Consumers and businesses are asked to voluntarily cut back their energy consumption, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
"If everyone turned off one 100-watt bulb, there's over 4 million houses in Ontario, or 4 million customers in Ontario," Terry Young, a spokesperson for IESO, told CTV News.
"That's 400 megawatts, the equivalent of a coal-fired unit at the [Nanticoke Coal-fired Power Plant]."
Along with turning off lights, other suggestions include setting air conditioners at 26 degrees or higher, closing curtains and blinds to keep out the sun and waiting until late evening to run appliances.
IESO hopes consumers will continue to reduce their use of power until 6 p.m. Friday, July 22.
"Higher consumption will mean higher electricity bills -- any conservation efforts will not only help individual consumers to offset those higher costs, but will help us to maintain reliable service to all consumers," Murphy said in the press release.
Ontario is also suffering through a drought, placing even more demand on the province's energy system, and forcing IESO to import power.
The hot weather not only pushes up demand but can cut back the capacity of transmission facilities, Young explained.
Some hydroelectric plants aren't working at capacity because drought conditions have left them with less water to use.
"If problems develop quickly and unexpectedly then we may have to take action without warning,'' Young added.
"That's something that we're trying to avoid and obviously the more that demand can be reduced the more chance we have of avoiding that."
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3501, old post ID:28337