{"id":62878,"date":"2022-06-12T11:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62878"},"modified":"2022-06-12T11:01:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:01:42","slug":"summer-outages-are-coming-is-your-facility-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62878","title":{"rendered":"Summer Outages Are Coming. Is Your Facility Prepared?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summer Outages Are Coming. Is Your Facility Prepared?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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On-site microgrids provide facilities with reliable energy during extreme weather that threatens utility blackouts and price increases.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal \u2014 almost every week we see news articles warning of more summer outages than ever before. The U.S. is experiencing\u00a0more outages<\/a>\u00a0than other industrialized nations. Meanwhile, heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires are only becoming more common. The\u00a0energy transition<\/a>\u00a0is here, and it\u2019s going to be a bumpy ride for the next 10-20 years.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the grid is shifting towards more intermittent renewables and shutting down existing power plants, leaving utilities with a thin reserve margin. This leaves large power users exposed to the risk of extended brownouts or outages.<\/p>\n

On-site microgrids ensure facilities have reliable, affordable power during peak events, regardless of the state of the grid.<\/p>\n

Extreme Weather Increases the Risk of Utility Blackouts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Early May should be too early for a heatwave, even in Texas. But already this year, grid operators expecting 105\u00b0 temperatures across the state were forced to\u00a0issue a grid outage warning<\/a>\u00a0and take action to stave off rolling blackouts. Nonetheless, some outages occurred as warned. Texas reached an almost record high in energy demand while generators and transmission operators scrambled to complete repairs and weatherization of a rapidly decaying grid.<\/p>\n

The state avoided most blackouts during the grid usage spike, but not all. For instance, the utility shut off some\u00a0Austin area customers<\/a>\u00a0due to the high demand, which exceeded\u00a071 GW<\/a>\u00a0ahead of the summer peak season (75 GW is the record summer demand). At the same time, electricity prices rose sharply, reaching\u00a0triple<\/a>\u00a0the average near Houston.<\/p>\n

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Summer Outages Are Coming. Is Your Facility Prepared? On-site microgrids provide facilities with reliable energy during extreme weather that threatens utility blackouts and price increases. Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal \u2014 almost every week we see news articles warning of more summer outages than ever before. The U.S. is experiencing\u00a0more outages\u00a0than other industrialized nations. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[79,5930,19415,1575,4552,32959,827],"class_list":["post-62878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-blackouts","tag-energy-transition","tag-microgrid","tag-power-loss","tag-power-outage","tag-unison-energy","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62879,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62878\/revisions\/62879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}