Millions of Americans Urged to Cut Power Use and Keep Grid Stable
- Grid is doing ‘everything possible’ to avoid rotating outages
- PJM had under forecast peak-hour demand by over 7 gigawatts
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The largest US grid operator is leaning on more than 65 million people to conserve electricity to keep the lights on as a frigid winter storm moves over the East Coast, boosting heating demand and forcing power plants to trip offline.
Rotating blackouts continue to be “a real potential risk” and people are being asked to help the grid until Sunday afternoon, said Michael Bryson, PJM Interconnection LLC’s senior vice president of operations.