ROCKFORD, IOWA – The Rockford Municipal Light Plant is urgently asking customers to cut down on their power and natural gas usage to mitigate the risk of potential power outages due to extreme cold weather and increased regional demand.
Customers are urged to lower their thermostats by 3 degrees, unplug unnecessary appliances, close fireplace dampers, and refrain from large appliance use as much as possible. Our community’s wholesale power supplier, the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN) is a member of Southwest Power Pool (SPP), which oversees the power grid of an area stretching from Oklahoma to the Canadian border. SPP has declared Energy Emergency Alerts (EEA) that remain in effect until further notice. Due to widespread and extreme cold, worsening conditions are creating energy deficiencies in the region and may lead to controlled service interruptions.
Additionally, extremely high demand is causing wholesale electricity and natural gas prices to skyrocket. Conservation efforts and immediately reducing demand in our region is in everyone’s best interest. Rockford Municipal Light Plant said in a statement they appreciate customers’ assistance in conserving electricity and natural gas to help mitigate grid interruptions during these extremely cold conditions.
The greatest feat of engineering in America during the 20th century was the development of it’s electrical power grid. And now with Texas being walloped with a really devastating power grid failure. They’ll be sucking power from other regions. These power barons aka electrical companies are one big monopoly. Profits come easy to them. Rates go up. And up. And yes, up. No apparent reason either. It just happens. Can’t say they’ll be tears shed for Texas. The cheated in the world series. Cheaters lose.
Not if your a lib/democrat
Wind Energy Ha, ha, ha. Solar is worse when you have a cloudy sky.
Green New Deal=Rolling blackouts and not enough energy.
Stupid republicans. For many prominent Texas politicians, that the deep-blue state of California was seeing problems in the summer with rolling blackouts that could at least in part be linked back to its heavily Democratic leadership proved irresistible for social media mockery.
There was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) laughing at California being “unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) blamed the outages on “California’s politicians.” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R) said the outages showed “what happens when you let Democrats control energy policy.” Perhaps most ironically, Sen. John Cornyn (R) shared a satirical article in which billboards advertising Texas touted the Lone Star State’s readily available electricity.
Too bad boys, but this one is on you.
Two different things Cali did not have enough power to run their state.
Texas has downed power lines from the 100 year storm
Wrong again. They had plenty of power they just hadn’t planned on excess heat just like the texans hadn’t planned on the cold snap. They thought they could make more money by ignoring the warnings. They probably did make more money, but at what cost?