{"id":64525,"date":"2022-12-24T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T15:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64525"},"modified":"2022-12-24T10:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T15:52:39","slug":"eastern-us-power-grid-declares-emergency-power-outages-top-one-million-flight-disruptions-persist-amid-storm-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64525","title":{"rendered":"Eastern US Power Grid Declares Emergency, Power Outages Top One Million, Flight Disruptions Persist Amid Storm Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__Eyn7V\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 30px; font-family: DINOT, Impact, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: 15px;\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__MEgbb\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 25px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-size: 30px; line-height: 36px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/eastern-us-power-grid-declares-emergency-power-outages-top-one-million-flight-disruptions\">Eastern US Power Grid Declares Emergency, Power Outages Top One Million, Flight Disruptions Persist Amid Storm Chaos<\/a><\/h3>\n<footer class=\"ArticleFull_headerFooter__nkAH_\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; justify-content: space-between; margin: 15px 0px; display: flex; align-items: flex-end;\"><\/footer>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__t4rGu\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 600px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__6iJOI NodeBody_container__hI8PI\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\">Let&#8217;s begin with\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; color: #1470b2;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/m\/newsroom\/2022-releases\/20221223-news-release-w1-statement-call-for-conservation.ashx\">PJM Interconnection<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\">&#8220;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,&#8221; PJM wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 500px !important;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\" xml:lang=\"en\">PJM asks consumers to conserve electricity in the face of continuing frigid temperatures.\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; color: #1470b2;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ks01AvBr9g\">https:\/\/t.co\/ks01AvBr9g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PJM Interconnection (@pjminterconnect)\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; color: #1470b2;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pjminterconnect\/status\/1606519458050228224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\">PJM&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/pjm.png?itok=uZgJgKp2\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/pjm.png?itok=uZgJgKp2\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/pjm.png?itok=uZgJgKp2\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"50cd1750-755d-4211-a977-9644b31a9cb8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\">&#8220;Demand soared more than 9 gigawatts above forecasts Friday evening \u2014 much faster and higher than anticipated. That&#8217;s the equivalent of about 9 million homes just popping up on the grid on a typical day,&#8221; Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\">PJM spokeswoman Susan Buehler told Bloomberg that Stage 2 emergency would &#8220;certainly be enough&#8221; to avert blackouts across the regional grid because the Arctic blast is only temporary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;\">In the Carolinas, Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, like several other utilities, have asked customers to conserve power due to energy shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern US Power Grid Declares Emergency, Power Outages Top One Million, Flight Disruptions Persist Amid Storm Chaos The powerful winter storm that battered a large swath of the eastern half of the US has left behind an Arctic chill Saturday morning. 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