“We are asking customers to conserve natural gas and electricity use through the evening hours. Due to the extreme cold temperatures facing our area, regional utilities are experiencing higher energy use than forecasted, and we need to reduce strain on the grid.” – story
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They did the same thing here in Nebraska.
I did not comply, but apparently many did.
I’ve never been there, but I know several folks here have lived in the area.
Tell me,
Has it gotten cold in Seattle in the winter before?
And was the power company able to cope then?
…I think I know the answers but I’m a Midwesterner so I’ll wait for those who know…
Campfires
I will reduce my consumption when they reduce the price of my utilities….WALLA!…FIXED!….
How’s that no new power plants and no new natural gas pipelines working out for you? Freeze you stupid bastards. Oh, and vote Democrat. Stupid bastards.
Our local power company Avista asked its customers to conserve natural gas when it was extremely cold on Saturday and Sunday in the Spokane area. I have gas heat and keep my thermometer set at 68 degrees and we did very well. Although my car didn’t start Sat. but when it warmed up a little it started right away on Sunday. And now it’s supposed to snow like hell tomorrow but warm up to near 40 by the weekend and it’ll just be rain. What else is new it’s Winter which we’ll soon forget about in 5 or 6 months when Summer comes around again.
A few BLM and Antifa riots would heat things up. WAIT, I’m sorry, I mean peaceful protests.
Good thing we have a direct vent gas stove on one half of the house that keeps us toasty. Natural gas for the win! And these climatologists want to ban nat gas, what morons! The other half of the house is where the furnace thermostat is, surrounded by uninsulated brick walls built in 1950. It’s set at 65, any higher it never turns off.
Could you imagine dealing with a heat pump in this crap? Even if it did work, like what in the hell, I’m not made of money.
In my county wood is the way to go. When we moved into our home the first thing we did was install the biggest wood stove we could find. Since then the surrounding counties limit when you can burn a wood stove. So the price of oak has dropped significantly.
Next time they won’t be asking.
My late oldest brother used to get pissed off when the electric company told people to cut back on usage in order to conserve, then they raised their rates because people weren’t using that much.
But….please buy an electric car. Just don’t plug it in. Thank you for your cooperation in saving the planet.
PGE raised utility rates $30 a mo on everybody to bury powerlines.
We went on a cruise some years ago and passed Cuba at night.
The only lights on were at Guantanamo Bay!
No shit – the rest of the island was dark.
Seems like Seattle’s going the way of Cuba.
Elections (even stolen elections) have consequences.
Probably not a good sign.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
“We are asking customers to conserve natural gas and electricity use through the evening hours. Due to the extreme cold temperatures facing our area, regional utilities are experiencing higher energy use than forecasted, and we need to reduce strain on the grid.”
(Cue world’s smallest violin…)
Here come the rolling blackouts.
Thank God we live in an advanced first world nation with plenty of conveniences and amenities like…heat for your house? Never mind.
I guess those Solar Panels don’t work so good when they’re covered with snow.
Keep this up and it won’t be the activists choice about being glued to the road.
wa-wa land has grown significantly since Western Wa-wa last saw single digits; late 80’s or early 90’s comes to mind. Since then we’ve removed hydro dams, not sure that they’ve grown the natural gas capability, but that didn’t stop them from proposing a rate increase so they can build a commercial compressed natural gas plant for export use on ocean going vessels just this past fall.
Also finally blew the coolong towers for the WPPS, aptly named “whoops” nuclear project, so hey spend 200% of your budget to build 98% of a project, mothball it, then scrap it.
A friend of mine says that Seattle is “ground zero” in a lot of ways:
(1) Earthquakes
(2) Tsunamis
(3) Volcanoes
(5) Wind and rain storms
(4) Floods
(6) Forest fires and choking smoke
(7) Nuclear strikes from N. Korea or China
I asked him about being overrun by tree-hugging idiots…
“That’s ancient history!” he said. 🙂
There was also a follow-on message from utility company, something about some NG delivery center off line. Because, weather never happens. Oh, wait. Its all around us.
LOVE the irony in this similar article from yesterday:
Texas grid operator ERCOT (Electric RELIABILITY!!! Council of Texas) on Monday asked residents to conserve electricity use as temperatures fall below zero with the wind chill in some parts of the state.
green/renewable a**holes
Communism: turning diamonds into coal since 1917
What did leftists use before they burned feces for heat? Electricity.
Once we all get smart meters, they won’t have to ask.
Built in 1785, I have photos of my house with people standing outside on the front yard. No power lines going into the house. No indoor plumbing, no insulation in the walls. Horse and carriage out by the road. We got it made, thank the lord, with chain saws and gas prices set to go up. FYI: 4 degrees this morning.