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Residents asked to conserve water as Jackson suffers setback at Curtis plant
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Customers can expect pressure fluctuation through the next 24 hours as the city of Jackson’s water system has experienced a setback at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant Saturday night.
Crews spent New Year’s Day working to get back on track.
“The water system was showing signs of recovery and had reached 80 PSI by the end of the day Saturday,” Interim Third-Party Manager Ted Henifin said in an email on Sunday. “The elevated tanks had started to fill for the first time since Christmas.”
However, he said “overnight process challenges” at Curtis, Jackson’s main treatment plant, stalled that process.
“As a result, the distribution system lost pressure and most of the gains reported,” he said. “Many customers who had water restored [on Saturday] have lost pressure again.”
Curtis is Jackson’s main water treatment facility, serving approximately 43,000 connections across the city, in Byram, and parts of Hinds County.
Problems occurred on the plant’s conventional treatment side. Details of the setback were under investigation. “It’s now running again,” Henifin said. “We don’t know what happened. We’re trying to figure it out.”
Areas impacted primarily include west, central, and south Jackson, as well as elevated areas in the capital city.
“Staff at O.B. Curtis are working diligently to fully recover the process and expect to make gains again late today,” Henifin wrote. “The current goal is to restore system pressure fully by Monday evening into early Tuesday morning.”
Pressure needs to be above 80 PSI, or pounds per square inch, to ensure all customers in the city have water. Pressure needs to be around 20 PSI at each connection before officials can begin testing to have boil water notices lifted.
As Jackson continues recovery efforts, the precautionary boil notice remains in place for much of the city, with the exception of those homes and businesses in the 39211 zip code.
“All customers with water are encouraged to conserve as much as possible to speed the recovery to those without water,” Henifin wrote.
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Power grid operator asks Ohioans to conserve power until Christmas morning – WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio
As the Miami Valley continues to dig out from the snow. There is a concern about the power grid.
The concern has officials wanting people to cut down on how much electricity they use.
Crews have been hard at work treating these snow and ice-covered roads.
“Our crews have driven about 292,000 miles across the state of Ohio since this winter storm started on Thursday,” Matt Bruning with the Ohio Department of Transportation said.
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ODOT said even though the snow is no longer falling, gusty winds are blowing snow back onto roads.
“Pavement temperatures are now up a little bit and have been through the day Saturday, so we’re now in the upper teens and low 20s across much of Ohio. That’s allowing the salt we use to work much, much better,” Bruning said.
Temperatures remain bitterly cold, putting a strain on some utility companies.
“We have a situation where the cold weather is really causing the demand for electricity to increase and we also have a situation where some of the power plants in our system are not performing because of the cold weather,” Mike Bryson, senior vice president of operations for PJM Interconnection said.
That is why PJM, the electricity grid provide for 65 million people, is asking the public to conserve electricity until 10 a.m. Christmas Day. Some of PJM’s member companies include AEP Ohio, Duke Energy and AES Ohio.
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“We realize that it comes at the most inconvenient time with families getting together for holiday traditions… every conservation effort collectively as a community throughout these states under their guidance will help,” Mary Ann Kabel, corporate communications director for AES Ohio said.
AES Ohio shared tips on how you can conserve electricity:
- Setting thermostats lower than usual, if health permits
- Delaying use of major electric appliances such as stoves, dishwashers and clothes dryers until other times.
- Turning off non-essential electric lights, equipment and appliances
“Conservation really works,” Bryson said.
PJM said it’s trying to do everything it can to prevent it from having to do rotating customer outages, which are planned outages that try to ensure the power grid doesn’t collapse.
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PJM urges customers to conserve electricity due to frigid temperatures
VALLEY FORGE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Frigid temperatures are having an effect on the power grid.
PJM Interconnection, the local electricity grid operator, is asking customers to conserve energy starting Saturday at 4 a.m. through Sunday at 10 a.m.
Electricity use right now is higher than usual and officials say conservation is important to prevent any power outages.
PJM says some steps you can take to conserve electricity are setting your thermostat lower than usual, if your health permits. Another option is avoid using major appliances like stoves, dishwashers and dryers, and turning off non-essential electric lights and equipment.
PJM says this will ensure adequate power supplies during these frigid temperatures.
PJM Interconnection is the electricity grid operator for 65 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia.
They will continue to monitor power supply conditions and will do everything possible to keep power flowing.
If necessary, PJM states that they will reduce voltage.
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We Energies asks more than 1 million Wisconsin customers to conserve natural gas after pipeline malfunction
Amid sub-zero temperatures, more than one million We Energies customers across Wisconsin are being asked to conserve natural gas because of a pipeline malfunction
We Energies asked its customers to immediately turn their thermostats to 62 degrees or lower Friday evening to prevent a widespread service outage.
Guardian Pipeline notified customers Friday that it had constrained the northbound flow of gas on one of its interstate pipelines due to unplanned maintenance at a compressor station in Illinois.
We Energies spokesperson Brendan Conway said Guardian had cut the utility’s gas supply by 30%.
Conway said the utility is drawing from liquified gas and propane storage facilities and has cut gas deliveries to business customers whose contracts allow for service interruptions. But because of the extreme cold gripping most of the nation, the utility is unable to get gas from other pipeline suppliers.
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A spokesperson for the pipeline company said one of two malfunctioning valves had been restored as of Friday night and crews were working on the second to restore capacity “in a timely manner.”
We Energies said it would reassess the situation and update customers on Saturday. No update had been provided as of 6 a.m. Saturday.
In addition to turning down thermostats, the company asked residents to avoid using secondary gas heaters, ovens, stoves and clothes dryers.
The National Weather Service was forecasting low temperatures of zero to 14 below across Wisconsin Friday night and highs mostly in the single digits, with much of the state under a wind chill advisory.
Ukrainians try to conserve electricity, endure water outages after Russian strikes
KYIV, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Ukrainians conserved electricity and some went without running water to try to ease pressure on the grid and give engineers a chance to rebuild infrastructure destroyed by Russian strikes as Kyiv’s forces advanced towards the city of Kherson.
Although Ukraine is successfully prosecuting counter-offensives against Russian forces in the east and the south, it is struggling to protect power generating facilities and other utilities from Russian air and drone strikes designed to disrupt lives and demoralise people as winter approaches.
The Ukrainian government on Thursday placed restrictions on electricity usage nationwide for the first time since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion following a barrage of attacks which President Volodymr Zelenskiy said had struck a third of all power plants.
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Under the new energy-saving regime, power supply across Ukraine was on Thursday restricted between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Ukraine’s energy minister said the government was seeking a 20% reduction in energy use and that Ukrainians were responding to the appeal to limit usage.
“We see a drop in consumption,” he said. “We see a voluntary decrease. But when it is not enough, we are forced to bring in forced shutdowns,” Minister Herman Halushchenko told Ukrainian TV.
Russia had carried out more than 300 air strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities since Oct. 10, he added.
Zelenskiy told the nation in a Wednesday night video address: “There is new damage to critical infrastructure. Three energy facilities were destroyed by the enemy today.
“We assume that Russian terror will be directed at energy facilities until, with the help of partners, we are able to shoot down 100% of enemy missiles and drones.”
One of the facilities hit on Wednesday was a coal-fired thermal power station in the city of Burshtyn in western Ukraine.
“Unfortunately there is destruction, and it is quite serious,” Svitlana Onyshchuk, Ivano-Frankivsk’s governor, said on Ukrainian television.
“Please limit your electricity consumption,” Zelenskiy told Ukrainians in the same address to the nation.
The Ukrainian leader was due to address an EU summit later on Thursday. Leaders of the 27 member states will discuss options for more support to Ukraine, including energy equipment, helping restore power supply and long-term financing to rebuild.
BATTLE FOR KHERSON
Cities such as the capital Kyiv and Kharkiv in the northeast announced curbs on the use of electric-powered public transport such as trolleybuses and reduced the frequency of trains on the metro.
DTEK, a major electricity supplier in Kyiv, told consumers it would do its best to make sure outages did not last longer than four hours.
The whole northeast region of Sumy, which borders Russia, said it would go the entire day – from 0700 to 2300 local time – without water, electric transport or street lighting.
“We need time to restore power plants, we need respite from our consumers,” Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, head of grid operator Ukrenergo, told Ukrainian TV.
Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday it was continuing to target Ukrainian energy infrastructure, a strategy it has stepped up since the appointment earlier this month of Sergei Surovikin – nicknamed “General Armageddon” by the Russian media because of his alleged toughness – as overall commander of what Moscow called its “special military operation”.
Reuters witnesses said five drones hit the southern port city of Mykolaiv on Thursday, but it was unclear where they had exploded.
The Ukrainian military continued to try to press its advance towards the southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital Russian forces have captured since their invasion eight months ago.
The Russian-appointed administration on Wednesday told civilians to leave the city – control of which allows Russia to control the only land route to the Crimea peninsula, seized by Russia in 2014, and the mouth of the Dnipro river.
On Wednesday, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russia-backed administration in Kherson, wrote on Telegram that Ukraine had launched an offensive towards Novaya Kamianka and Berislav in the Kherson region.
While Ukraine remained tight-lipped about its operations, its military said in an early Thursday update on the Kherson region said 43 Russian servicemen had been killed and six tanks and other equipment destroyed.
The Russian defence ministry on Thursday described a battle in the area which it said its forces had won in the end.
“In the area of the settlement of Sukhanovo, Kherson region, the enemy managed to drive a wedge into Russian units’ defensive lines,” the ministry said.
“Due to the introduction of a tank reserve by the Russian command into battle, as well as ambush actions, the enemy was significantly defeated, and Ukrainian units fled. The position on the front edge of the defensive line has been completely restored.”
Reuters was not able to verify battlefield reports.
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ERCOT Asks Texans to Conserve Power Until 8 P.M., Through the Weekend – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
ERCOT, Texas’ power grid operator, is putting out a call for all Texans to conserve energy over the next few days as we head into a weekend with potentially record heat.
In a statement, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said, “unseasonably hot weather” was driving record demand across Texas” and that they need everyone to conserve power between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday after six facilities unexpectedly tripped offline Friday afternoon.
HOW TO CONSERVE POWER
- ERCOT asks all Texans to curb power usage where they can, including raising their thermostat to 78 degrees or higher between the hours of peak usage (3 p.m. to 8 p.m.).
- ERCOT also asks Texans to not use large appliances like dishwashers or washing machines and dryers during peak times.
ERCOT said six power plants dropped off the grid Friday, resulting in a loss of about 2,900 MW of generation — that’s enough electricity to power roughly 580,000 homes.
According to ERCOT data, demand reached 65,412 MW shortly before 5 p.m. Friday. Since that time the demand has been dropping. At 5:30 p.m., ERCOT had operating reserves of roughly 3,400 MW and in a statement on Friday afternoon said, “At this time, all generation resources available are operating.”
NBC 5’s team of weather experts has warned that higher than normal temperatures could lead to several broken temperature records in the coming days. See the latest forecast here. NBC 5’s Chief Meteorologist Rick Mitchell recommends taking heat precautions this weekend including scaling back outdoor activities so as not to overexert yourself in the heat. Be sure to stay hydrated too. Also, keep your pets cool and watered.
SPP again asks Oklahomans to conserve energy, declares Energy Emergency Alert Level 2
SPP again asks Oklahomans to conserve energy, declares Energy Emergency Alert Level 2
My name is Mike Ross, senior vice president for government affairs and public relations. That Little Rock Bay Southwest power pool, uh, is many of, you know, SPP manages the electric grid and hotel electorate market plans transmission for all or part of the 14 states were one of seven regional transmission organizations designated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the United States. Um, we appreciate your interest and your participation. Aziz, we manage this winter weather event, I would say, an unprecedented winter weather event where we’ve had, uh, temperatures below zero throughout our entire 14 state region. We’re joined today by Barbara Suck, the president and chief executive officer and also Lannie Nickel, who is the executive vice president and chief operating officer and our current status. Um, the good news is we’re in energy emergency alert Level one no coordinated temporary interruption of service Today, however, we are continuing with public appeals to conserve energy. Certainly not out of the woods yet on with that, I’ll turn to Barbara Sugg, the president CEO of Southwest Power Pool, for for some comments. Thanks, Mike. And thanks everybody that joined us today. I know it’s been a trying week for all of us and for all of you and for all of your customers and your neighbors. And, um, you know, we This has been a very unprecedented week, and I know people are tired of the word unprecedented, but it does really apply here. The temperatures, the load, the the entire situation has just been a real challenge for all of us, of course. But, you know, interrupted loads, uh, controlled outages like like we’ve had to call on these last two days, yesterday and the day before. Yeah, I mentioned this yesterday. These air, these air things that we decisions that we don’t take lightly. There’s not a single megawatt that is not important to us. There’s not a single customer or customer of our member companies that is not important to us. And so you know, certainly any type of an outage is a last ditch effort to protect the integrity of the transmission grid on to really prevent what could be a really dire situation, where where we have widespread blackouts that air uncontrolled and damaging to the system, and then it takes a lot of time thio to bring people back on it is always unfortunate, um, toe ever. You know, for any utility company ever toe have to take an outage, an intentional outage with their customers. And we haven’t We haven’t been in this boat before, and and we’re fortunate that we hadn’t been in this boat before where we had to take outages or or, uh, give orders to give to take outages within our region. Eso It’s so it’s been trying for us because we do every single thing we can do to try to prevent getting to the stage where an outage is necessary. But please know that outages that are taken are absolutely necessary to protect the grid. At that point in time when the conditions were such that too much load, it is devastating. Um, so Mike mentioned we’re still in an energy emergency alert. Level one, there are three levels. I think Lanny Lanny will probably go over that a little bit more. Um, but level one really is just, uh it is the lowest level. That’s good. The highest level is a three on that. Ultimately is where we start seeing the need essentially, anyway, that needs thio. Call for interruptions. Yeah, E for continued conservation, um, turning off some lights and maybe running the dishwasher at a different time or doing laundry at a different time. Uh, when the load is really high. I am absolutely positive that those conservation efforts helped to minimize the amount of time that we actually were in these outage situations. Um, so we also coordinate with a lot of people. And so another reason that we’ve been able to minimize these windows of outage periods long a small as we have, is through the coordination with all of our member companies, Uh, and the coordination that they have with all of you, the conservation efforts, the work that we do with the energy suppliers, the relationships that we have with the utility companies and neighboring regions outside of Southwest powerful that may have extra generation at anyone given point in time that they can that they can, you know, fill into our region. And we can import that and help to cover all of those types of coordinated events and work with our neighbors has has played a huge role in us being ableto limit these outages to the times that we have limited them. We’re not out of the woods yet. The deep freeze is still here. Um, it is still in a you know, we’re still in a situation where across our 14 state footprint, we have higher loads than we would ever have it this time of year. And, um, that that presents challenges for us that we’re still working through. I’m very proud of not just our team, but all of you. Uh, and how people have really stepped up to help, uh, in minimizing the potential outcomes. So with that, I’ll pass it back to Mike, and I’ll stick around to help answer any questions that you may have it. The end. Thank you. Thanks, Barbara. And up next is Lannie Nickel or executive Vice president and chief operating officer at at Southwest Power Pool. Lenny. Well, thank you, Mike. And you know, I don’t really want to go all the way back, Thio about a week and a half ago, when when we really began to, um, start paying attention and and preparing for this cold weather event, Um, I will I will go because a lot of you’ve already heard that, but I will go back to really Sunday morning which is when we issued our first announcement of an energy, um er emergency alert, which was a level one at the time. That’s when we begin to ask our member utilities to ask their customers to conserve energy. And those public appeals in my mind were very helpful. I believe we saw, um, almost immediate impact because by the time Monday morning rolled around, which is when we were projecting a peak of over 45,000 megawatts for wintertime conditions, we actually ended up on Lee experience in 43,000, a little over 43,000 megawatts. So almost a 2000 megawatt reduction that I believe largely can be attributed to the fact that consumers began to voluntarily reduce their usage. And, uh and that was certainly helpful to us. Um, as you recall, uh, if if you’ve been paying attention to these press conferences over the last couple of days, we did ultimately on Monday have to begin issuing directions to our utility members to, uh, start performing their emergency plans for rotating interruptions of service. Uh, that on Monday, uh, that call for for interruptions of service across the region. The 14 state region Onley amounted to about 1.5% of our regional consumption at that time. Uh, and it lasted for 50 minutes. Uh, Tuesday we began with with a little more, uh, of extreme event, because load consumption was expected to be higher that day. As you know, temperatures across the footprint continued to drop and and we were projecting even higher load for for Tuesday. And as a result of that, as well as other events occurring across the system generation not being as available as it had been on Monday, um And then, uh, imports that we have been blessed to rely upon Monday weren’t quite as great as, uh on Tuesday. And so we ended up having Thio issue directives to interrupt about 6.5% of our load on Tuesday, and that lasted about three hours and 21 minutes. Uh, these air actions we don’t want to take we’ve we’ve said that we’ll continue to remind you the these air last resort actions we’ve taken all other steps weaken. Do we? We direct all available generation that can come online to come online way, direct them to do that and purchase fuel no matter what that cost is, um, way direct and ask for assistance from our neighbors and, uh, and and we do all of that. At the same time, we’re trying to make sure that supply and demand are balanced and at the same time, while trying to make sure that transmission system infrastructure is being properly managed within safe operating limits, Um, and but at the point when demand exceeds supply, we have to correct that. We have to do it nearly immediately because if we don’t, the system will begin to automatically correct that for us. And when that happens, cascading outages occurred when a generator trips offline because it has to do that to prevent further damage that will have an impact to other generators on the system. Those generators begin to trip, and as Mawr and Mawr generators begin to trip in, an uncontrolled fashion load can no longer be served. And we had nothing we can do at that point. When that begins, toe happen. It happens in milliseconds and manual operators can. I mean, we just can’t intervene manually. Operators can’t stop that when we get to that point. So everything we’ve done has been done to protect against farm or extreme events from occurring that impact many more consumers and impact them in a much deeper MAWR impactful longer lasting way. Um, 30 minutes of our 50 minutes of outage on Monday, three hours and 21 minutes of outage on Tuesday that affected up to 6.5% of our load. Um, you know, that was that was doing everything we could do to try to continue to keep the lights on for as many people as we could in a very responsible way, as Mike mentioned today, Um, today has been much better, and we hope that that continues. Um, and and we hope that that continues through tomorrow. It it appears based on our best projections, that we could very well be in an emergency alert level to tonight again, on a level two does not mean we’re gonna shed load. It’s just simply, uh, emphasizing the need for consumers to voluntarily reduce consumption. But we could very well be there later tonight. And, uh, and throughout the night, um and then maybe early into the morning tomorrow, we do hope by the end of the day tomorrow that, uh, you know, given weather conditions and and load continuing to drop that we could very, very well be out of this situation entirely on and hope to see that by Friday We’re going to continue to do the best we can. And we’re working a zwelling we can with our members. I know they have been talking to us, Uh, just every hour, every practically every minute. We talked to them, and, uh, and our neighbors as well. And, uh, you know, without that interconnected system and network of neighbors helping each other out, this situation could have been a lot worse. And I know that’s that’s hard to hear if you’ve been affected by it. And I don’t we don’t want anybody to be affected by it. But if you have been, I know that’s hard to hear. This could have been worse, but it But it could be. I mean, that’s just the truth of the situation that could have been worse. And we’re continuing to work on. It will continue to try to make this a Z painless as possible, and and we hope to be out of it very soon.
SPP again asks Oklahomans to conserve energy, declares Energy Emergency Alert Level 2
Updated: 7:54 PM CST Feb 17, 2021
The Southwest Power Pool again has asked Oklahomans to conserve electricity after declaring an Energy Emergency Alert Level 2.The increase to Level 2 went to effect at 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, hours after the Southwest Power Pool decreased it to Level 1.“We continue to urge all homes and businesses throughout our 14-state region to conserve electricity, but are not directing any interruptions of service at this time,” Southwest Power Pool officials said in a news release. “The public should follow their service providers’ directions regarding local outages, tips for conservation and safety.”As of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, OG&E officials said there are no power outages on their system. They also said OG&E has restoration personnel ready to restore power as quickly and safely as possible to address any issues.OG&E officials also said that, per the Southwest Power Pool, temporary service interruptions remain on hold for now.”This could change at any time as extreme cold weather in the region, combined with the high demand for natural gas, continues,” OG&E officials said in a news release. “We will make every effort to communicate with customers about service interruption and estimated restoration should mandated interruptions resume.”OG&E officials said customers can help by taking conservation steps such as:Set thermostats lower than usual, if health permits.Postpone using major electric appliances such as stoves, dishwashers and clothes dryers until midday or after 9 p.m. when the demand for electricity decreases.Turn off electric lights and appliances that you do not need or are not using.Businesses should minimize the use of electric lighting and electricity-consuming equipment as much as possible.Large consumers of electricity should consider shutting down or reducing nonessential production processes.
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The Southwest Power Pool again has asked Oklahomans to conserve electricity after declaring an Energy Emergency Alert Level 2.
The increase to Level 2 went to effect at 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, hours after the Southwest Power Pool decreased it to Level 1.
“We continue to urge all homes and businesses throughout our 14-state region to conserve electricity, but are not directing any interruptions of service at this time,” Southwest Power Pool officials said in a news release. “The public should follow their service providers’ directions regarding local outages, tips for conservation and safety.”
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As of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, OG&E officials said there are no power outages on their system. They also said OG&E has restoration personnel ready to restore power as quickly and safely as possible to address any issues.
OG&E officials also said that, per the Southwest Power Pool, temporary service interruptions remain on hold for now.
“This could change at any time as extreme cold weather in the region, combined with the high demand for natural gas, continues,” OG&E officials said in a news release. “We will make every effort to communicate with customers about service interruption and estimated restoration should mandated interruptions resume.”
OG&E officials said customers can help by taking conservation steps such as:
- Set thermostats lower than usual, if health permits.
- Postpone using major electric appliances such as stoves, dishwashers and clothes dryers until midday or after 9 p.m. when the demand for electricity decreases.
- Turn off electric lights and appliances that you do not need or are not using.
- Businesses should minimize the use of electric lighting and electricity-consuming equipment as much as possible.
- Large consumers of electricity should consider shutting down or reducing nonessential production processes.