Update (2030ET):
Con Edison is asking its 1.1 million natural gas, 3.5 million electric, and steam customers in the New York City Metropolitan region to conserve energy due to frigid weather.
“Conserving energy as much as possible now will help ensure adequate natural gas supplies for the rest of the weekend,” Con Edison said.
“Owners of natural gas pipelines have reported that equipment problems caused by the cold weather and the heavy demand for natural gas are challenging their ability to provide adequate amounts of gas throughout the Northeast,” the utility company continued.
Add Con Edison to the growing list of utilities and grid operators that warned about grid stress issues due to surging heating demand.
We are urging customers to conserve energy due to frigid weather & increased demand on interstate pipelines that bring natural gas to our region. We are also taking other steps such as utilizing other sources of natural gas in order to serve our customers. https://t.co/eDaiSrrmpZ pic.twitter.com/AAFxqWpFez
— Con Edison (@ConEdison) December 25, 2022
Read below for where rolling blackouts have been reported.
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Update (1724ET):
As night settles and temperatures plunge again, power grids in the country’s eastern half are under severe stress. Review the latest updates for reports of widespread rolling blackouts.
Another utility has just warned about grid chaos. Dominion Energy has asked customers in Virginia and North Carolina to conserve power. The utility said high electricity demand would continue for days.
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Update (1720ET):
ISO New England warned it has “insufficient reserve supplies” and asked members to “voluntarily curtail power” amid grid strain.
According to Bloomberg, the grid operator declared an energy emergency level 1 and requested utilities to reduce electricity consumption.
“We have declared a power caution for the region, and is calling upon reserve resources due to the unexpected loss of generation and imports,” spokesman Matthew Kakley said in an emailed statement.
Power demand soars above forecast, and supplies are tight. Power prices average more than $2,000 per megawatt hour across the grid.
About 70% of the power generation mix is oil, nuclear, and natural gas, while unreliable renewables barely account for 6%.
ISO New England has yet to implement rolling blackouts. We note below rolling blackouts have been used by utilities across parts of the Southeast US.
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Update (1445ET):
More power disruption could be seen tonight as temperatures are expected to drop again as heating demand soars.
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Update (1243ET):
Add Georgia to the growing list of states experiencing rolling power blackouts.
Georgia is in the rolling blackout stage of cold. pic.twitter.com/2ozAzU6qBi
— Rebecca Mitchell, DVM, PhD (@Rebecca4Georgia) December 24, 2022
White House remains silent as Americans are plunged into power blackouts amid grid instabilities on Christmas Eve. Biden’s social media team continues to pump tweets about how everything is wonderful.
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Update (1200ET):
Utilities have issued rolling power blackouts across North Carolina and Tennessee this morning.
News just hit Bloomberg that Tennessee Titans delayed the home game against Houston Texans over power concerns.
*TENNESSEE TITANS DELAY TEXANS GAME BY ONE HOUR ON POWER CONCERN
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 24, 2022
Extreme cold temperatures are pressuring power grids in the eastern half of the US. Rolling blackouts have affected many Americans, some of which have taken to Twitter to complain:
18 degrees this morning and the woke idiots at Duke Energy are running “rolling blackouts” to conserve electricity. Thank God for a fossil fueled generator and wood burning fireplace! pic.twitter.com/0pIhZV7lDT
— Will Dallas (@Oldefisherman) December 24, 2022
I have been in this #RollingBlackout since 8:38 am it’s now 11:38 am and I still do NOT have power @DukeEnergy do better in these cases since y’all PLANNED this!! #DukeEnergy #ChristmasEve
— David Ruffin AND The Temptations (@MaraleeLynese) December 24, 2022
Rolling blackout in Florence. Power just went out at Crunch Fitness and surrounding areas near Darby Drive and Florence Boulevard. @TVAnews @whnt @WAAYTV @waff48 #valleywx #shoals pic.twitter.com/lC4QbjgfWe
— Jeremy Jackson (@JeremyJacksonAL) December 24, 2022
Memphis is under a mandatory rolling blackout and boil water advisory. Meanwhile, TVA is allowing the NFL to fully power Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Story below. #poweroutage #Titans #TVA #MLGW #Memphis
— KWAM NewsTalk Memphis (@Mighty990KWAM) December 24, 2022
Power was off at my house for 32 minutes, others have reported over 2 hours with the rolling blackouts.
It’s currently 21° with a wind chill of 9°.Has your power been out and how long did it take before restoration? pic.twitter.com/MsCqoT4ttk
— Wendy Nations WREG (@wendynationswx) December 24, 2022
WTF 6 hours plus is not a rolling blackout! Pikeville NC out since 6:37am!!!
— Cari K 🇺🇲🇺🇦🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 (@ClearBlueSkyys) December 24, 2022
It is 20° in Memphis, TN & we are stuck in what is now a 6 hour “rolling blackout”… on Christmas Eve.
Because of left-wing “climate change” lies & hysteria, necessary nat gas infrastructure needed to keep the power on hasn’t been built.
Fuck Democrats & their climate change.
— H. F. (@MayBeHunterF) December 24, 2022
This is unacceptable.
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Update (1115ET):
PJM Interconnection’s power generation mix this morning is primarily coal, natural gas, nuclear, and crude oil. So much for unreliable renewables helping out when the regional grid that supplies power to 65 million Americans in 13 states and the District of Columbia is in an emergency.
It’s time for Americans to realize renewables are unreliable — also, decommissioning fossil fuel power generation in the name of ‘climate change’ is idiotic at this point.
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The powerful winter storm that battered a large swath of the eastern half of the US has left behind an Arctic chill Saturday morning. A regional power grid with 65 million customers in 13 states and the District of Columbia has declared a rare emergency, over a million people have no power, air travel remains disrupted, and reports of highway accidents are some of the most trending topics this morning.
Let’s begin with PJM Interconnection, a regional power grid that stretches from Illinois to New Jersey, which declared a Stage 2 emergency late Friday and asked customers to conserve electricity due to the rising risk of grid instability.
“PJM is asking consumers to reduce their use of electricity, if health permits, between the hours of 4 a.m. on December 24, 2022, and 10 a.m. on December 25, 2022,” PJM wrote in a press release.
PJM asks consumers to conserve electricity in the face of continuing frigid temperatures. https://t.co/ks01AvBr9g
— PJM Interconnection (@pjminterconnect) December 24, 2022
PJM’s request for customers to reduce power comes as the grid manager is trying to prevent a Stage 3 emergency, which would result in rolling blackouts across the 13 states and the District of Columbia.
“Demand soared more than 9 gigawatts above forecasts Friday evening — much faster and higher than anticipated. That’s the equivalent of about 9 million homes just popping up on the grid on a typical day,” Bloomberg said.
PJM spokeswoman Susan Buehler told Bloomberg that Stage 2 emergency would “certainly be enough” to avert blackouts across the regional grid because the Arctic blast is only temporary.
In the Carolinas, Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, and several other utilities, have asked customers to conserve power due to energy shortfalls.
Duke wrote in a statement Saturday morning it has “implemented load shedding steps that include interruptions in service.” This means power is being curtailed for some customers to protect the grid from collapse.
With power grids in an emergency across the eastern half of the US, there are also a million customers without power — most outages are in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Maine.
Bloomberg said 200 million Americans — around 60% of the country — are under winter weather alerts this morning.
The Ambient Weather network of weather stations across the US shows much of the country is below freezing this morning.
And for the third day, travel remains disrupted. FlightAware showed over 1,600 flights within, into, or out of the US were canceled. Another 1,700 were delayed. Most of the disruptions were at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, O’Hare International Airport, and John F. Kennedy International Airport.
And it wasn’t just air travel that experienced troubles. As millions of Americans hit the highways to see loved ones, there were numerous reports of massive pileup crashes. One of the most spoken about this morning is the 46-car pileup on the Ohio Turnpike.
🚨#BREAKING: Mass Casualty Incident’ declared following pileup on Interstate 75 in Ohio
Multiple emergency crews are responding too a very serious accident is occurring on I-75N. With Mass Casualty Incident declared reports of over 100+ vehicles are piled up pic.twitter.com/TgfCm852Si
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) December 23, 2022
The good news is the unbearable cold blast will begin to dissipate next week. Average temperatures across the Lower 48 will jump from 24 degrees Fahrenheit to over 50 degrees by January 1.
Hoping for a White Christmas?
There’s not one peep from climate alarmists about the cold blast after they spewed nonsense this past summer about the world imminently burning. ‘Trust the science,’ they say…
Plenty of record lows on this Christmas Eve pic.twitter.com/xaa4LJxDnu
— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT (@MikeZaccardi) December 24, 2022
Guess what’s trending on Twitter this morning.
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