a big thank you kiss to the power coop for keeping our electricity going...must be near peak demands..
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that explains it. During the last few days the LED voltage meter in my kitchen outlet has been displaying 114 volts. Normally I'm up around 118 to 119. During the summer in the late afternoon it would dip down to 112 or 113. I called the utility in September, it's the local city, and shazamm, my voltage seemed to bounce back up. Likely coincidental.
But now in the coldest times, all these homes and trailers with electric heating, they all have it, that's what is sucking down the power grid. And today when things open back up, should
be even bigger draw down.
I spent two years in the power generation business calling on utility power plants. Now is the time what is called the peaking units come on, the last line of low voltage or brownout defense.
And most peaking units are the least desirable ecologically, often jet engines running giant gen sets. Or giant diesel engines. The efficient hydro and nuclear or coal fired steam turbine power plants are all running at max. Bet it's nice and warm in there.
Those plants boil a lot of water... might even be some hardy fishermen out there catching a load of fish downstream from the
hydro plants or near the outlet of the nuke plants. Water is always two to four degrees warmer, attracts the fish and the fishermen know it.
Though I bet with this cold there is a lot of ice forming on lakes and rivers.
Ok, first one to go ice skating wins a ?
