LH Panther Mom
04-17-2006, 06:29 PM
Now that it's back up, I got back into my work email and had received this from the head of our IT dept.
ERCOT sent this press release:
Statewide Power Shortage
ERCOT – the entity that manages the statewide electric grid – has declared an emergency and has ordered that utilities drop or stop serving 1,000 MW of load statewide.
Austin’s share of that emergency order is 37-40 MW. Austin Energy begun rotating blackouts in Austin about 4:20 pm to comply with our share of the load shedding requirement.
The state’s problem is due to unseasonably hot temperatures plus generating plants in planned outages for maintenance.
The statewide power shortage is expected to continue until about 6:00 pm. But that’s an estimate.
Ask all citizens to reduce electrical use to the extent possible.
ERCOT sent this press release:
Statewide Power Shortage
ERCOT – the entity that manages the statewide electric grid – has declared an emergency and has ordered that utilities drop or stop serving 1,000 MW of load statewide.
Austin’s share of that emergency order is 37-40 MW. Austin Energy begun rotating blackouts in Austin about 4:20 pm to comply with our share of the load shedding requirement.
The state’s problem is due to unseasonably hot temperatures plus generating plants in planned outages for maintenance.
The statewide power shortage is expected to continue until about 6:00 pm. But that’s an estimate.
Ask all citizens to reduce electrical use to the extent possible.