Snow Conn Power Outages

[AndyMA]

Wide Spread Outages

 

[Torvy]

Yikes! Have a cousin in Western CT. I'll have to send her a text and see if they are OK.

Thanks for posting this.

 

[stevem5215]

Storm blew through Pittsburgh Pa and blew the top off one of our trees here. About a 20ft section of dead pine. Power was out the whole day and came on just as sun set at 5pm. Whew. Dodged that one as it's currently -3.8 outside. Inside house temps were down to 64 degrees.

 

[Torvy]

Storm blew through Pittsburgh Pa and blew the top off one of our trees here. About a 20ft section of dead pine. Power was out the whole day and came on just as sun set at 5pm. Whew. Dodged that one as it's currently -3.8 outside. Inside house temps were down to 64 degrees.

haha....my wife keeps our house at 64 in the winter anyway. Got to boost it up to 68 this week to help in case pipes froze. 20 years ago, it was me trying to save money and keep the thermostat low! It is even worse, since the way our thermostat is set up, the majority of the house is a good 3-5 degrees colder most of the time.

 

[5030]

Not an issue here as we have a diesel powered standby. 45 seconds and it assumes the entire load. Something I'm never concerned about.

 

[WranglerX]

Gee Now you know what California goes through all the time.....

 

[Richard001]

What was the cause of the outage ?

 

[Thomas]

Old man winter gave lot of us 1-2 punch.

 

[Richard001]

OK I understand that you got snow an some wind. Did that take down the power lines or was the system overloaded caused blackouts ?

 

[Yander]

We got a notification from AEP Ohio to reduce power usage and that load shedding may need to occur to protect the grid. My niece lives in a little town in Logan county and half the town is out because of load management. Bad time to be without power.

I would never trust just electric for heat. Never. Always have a non electric backup that could sustain you at least a week. Even better a month.

 

[Yander]

Gee Now you know what California goes through all the time.....

Except most places in California are not 5 degrees.

 

[Yander]

OK I understand that you got snow an some wind. Did that take down the power lines or was the system overloaded caused blackouts ?

If they part of the PJM transmission organization it may be a controlled blackout. Ohio is PJM and we just got the heads up earlier that they were possible.

 

[5030]

Far as I'm concerned, Kalifornia's issues are 100% self imposed

 

[Richard001]

We got a notification from AEP Ohio to reduce power usage and that load shedding may need to occur to protect the grid. My niece lives in a little town in Logan county and half the town is out because of load management. Bad time to be without power.

I would never trust just electric for heat. Never. Always have a non electric backup that could sustain you at least a week. Even better a month.

OK I don't know how the electricity in your area is being generated, but if it's like a lot of other cities and states, a lot of it is "supposed" to be generated by wind and solar. If you have high winds and it's night time, and it's cold, the wind generators are shut down and of course there is no sun. So much for the "renewable" energy. It just doesn't work.

 

[WranglerX]

Except most places in California are not 5 degrees

Far as I'm concerned, California's issues are 100% self imposed

That is because PG&E is more concerned on paying dividends on their stocks then putting utility payer's monies back into the system.... But dark is dark and cold is cold...

 

[Yander]

Coal and Nuclear primarily with some Hydro, Solar and Wind for PJM.

 

[hiddentacocatneddih]

There should be extra capacity available since many heavy industries shut down for the holiday such as steel mills and aluminum smelters

 

[hornett22]

Patheticut has a piss poor infrastructure. Especially for the amount of taxes they pay.

I guess too many electric vehicles and smoothie machines overloaded the system.

 

[AndyMA]

What was the cause of the outage ?

60 Mile per Hour wind and heavy rain. No snow

Andy

 

[5030]

O find it amazing, how poor shape the grid is in today.