Canada: Alberta: 2nd grid alert in a week leads to rotating power outages. What’s going on?
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:51 pm
2nd grid alert in a week leads to rotating power outages in Alberta. What’s going on?
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For the second time this week, the Alberta Electric System Operator issued a grid alert for the province on Friday, and the provincial capital briefly faced rotating power outages — and it isn’t the first time this year Albertans have faced shortages.
Just before 7 a.m., the AESO declared a grid alert due to tight supply.
“Generation is slowly coming online, and we expect conditions to return to normal by 10 a.m.,” the non-profit organization posted on social media.
Utility provider Epcor said around 9 a.m. that AESO had directed it to “help manage power consumption in the province” so rotating outages were rolling across Edmonton.
Half an hour later, the outages stopped as the directive to conserve power had ended, but not before about 20,000 customers in Edmonton lost power at some point.
Read more here:
https://globalnews.ca/news/10405013/alb ... ert-april/
For the second time this week, the Alberta Electric System Operator issued a grid alert for the province on Friday, and the provincial capital briefly faced rotating power outages — and it isn’t the first time this year Albertans have faced shortages.
Just before 7 a.m., the AESO declared a grid alert due to tight supply.
“Generation is slowly coming online, and we expect conditions to return to normal by 10 a.m.,” the non-profit organization posted on social media.
Utility provider Epcor said around 9 a.m. that AESO had directed it to “help manage power consumption in the province” so rotating outages were rolling across Edmonton.
Half an hour later, the outages stopped as the directive to conserve power had ended, but not before about 20,000 customers in Edmonton lost power at some point.