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Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans
There are soooo many possible explanations for an outage, but weather and mother nature is the answer most of the time.
The over-drawing of current is correct, but it's not because there are too many people using electricity at once. Power grids are designed with this in mind, wouldn't you think?  |
Correct, weather is usually the main cause.
As far as electricity goes, electricity companies are required to have a pool of electricity at all points during the day that their customers draw from. The amount of electricity in that pool is set by AESO, and i beleive it is set to be about 5% to 10% above normal load. As more load comes onto the grid, the companies are supposed to add more electricity to the grid to keep the pool at a safe level. The problem right now is, load is higher than normal, and it is inside the "danger" zone of reaching the limits of that pool, and there is not enough electricity available to add to the pool. If the load did reach and exceed that limit, the entire province, and i beleive parts of BC, Washington, Idaho, montana, sask could go down as well.