Cold Means High Demand on Hydro
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 @ 12:26 PM
During that hour, demand for electricity peaked at 10,126 megawatts.
The previous record high was 10,113 megawatts between 5 and 6pm on November 29th of 2006.
As the cold snap continues, demand for electricity throughout the province is expected to remain high. BC Hydro says it is preparing for peak loads between 9,800 and 10,200 megawatts this week.
BC Hydro offers a few tips for residential customers who want to save electricity and dollars:
- Manage your thermostat. Lowering it by two degrees to save 5 per cent. Lowering it by five degree to save 10 per cent.
- Unplug your second fridge and save up to $90 per year.
- Unplug unused electronics and save $50 per year.
- Wash laundry in cold water and save $27 per year.
- Turn off unnecessary lights and save $12 per year.
Comments
Keep building that dam. It’s only going to get worse….
Yes, looking forward to going into debt until 2094 to build something we don’t need.
thank Christ I will be dead by then.
Yes, by all means, let’s wait until we have brown-outs and then start building the dam!!
Did not realize that many people had electric heat.
So are saying electricity is only used for Heat?
When it gets cold outside you generally don’t turn more lights on, you turn the heat up.
Leave the City and you find out quick how many Options you have, Oil,propane,Wood !
Just your furnace fan uses lots of electricity when it gets cold a DC motors help a bit though. Good thing for the site C dam so we can continue to see low costs on our electric Bills. And right on for lowering our debt like Christy has done.
Have you been living under a rock? BC Hydro residential rates have gone up 47% over the past decade the BC Liberals have been in power, and what’s in store for us rate payers in the future? How about a 28% increase in residential Hydro rates.
As far as debt, it is up and revenue down for BC Hydro. It is a complete mystery to me, and many others, why Site C is even being built when “faltering electricity demand among industrial customers will cost BC Hydro $3.5 billion less in revenue — over the term of its 10-year financial plan.”
http://vancouversun.com/business/energy/drop-in-industrial-demand-to-cost-bc-hydro-3-5-billion
ht tp://www.ontario-hydro.com/electricity-rates-by-province
Buy a solar system like Ataloss and your power will be free, oh wait.
Um BH industrial down but consumption still increasing did you miss that.
BH, you are today using the infrastructure that previous generations left for you to drive on, turn the lights on with and so on! Had they used your approach we would be in a bad pickle! Fortunately naysayers are in the minority!
“Fortunately naysayers are in the minority”. Really?
ht tp://www.insightswest.com/news/seventy-per-cent-of-british-columbians-support-pausing-site-c-construction-to-investigate-alternatives/
Not sure what books you’ve been looking at. BCs debt has skyrocketed in the last 12 years.
Anyone with just half a brain should be able to figure out why these stories keep showing up about high demand for power.
So then hydro is lying and hundreds of hydro employees and lying ya okay oldman. Did you know man did not land on the moon.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT #3: BC Hydro residential rates have gone up 47% over the past decade the BC Liberals have been in power, and what’s in store for us rate payers in the future? How about a 28% increase in residential Hydro rates over the next 5 years.
As for Site C being need to meet BC’s increasing hydro demand, the opposite is actually true. …“faltering electricity demand among industrial customers will cost BC Hydro $3.5 billion less in revenue — over the term of its 10-year financial plan.”
ht tp://vancouversun.com/business/energy/drop-in-industrial-demand-to-cost-bc-hydro-3-5-billion
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT – We still have one of the lowest rates for electricity in the country. We may have gone up but so has every other province and territory in Canada
Hydro job justification and their justifying the rate increases.
Just l;ike the gas companies…raise the costs for whatever reason and their favorite excuse is because they “might” run out of gas.
Maybe Hydro is going to run out of Hydro here due to the amount they are sending south.
how much are they sending south, you must have the facts?
After copying a pasting slinky’s link. I see BC is the lowest in the entire country at 32.05. under stage one, want to burned up power it will cost you but way less that most provinces. Good job at lowering the massive debt the NDP left us with.
Again? BC debt in 2000 $34billionz in 2016 it’s over $66 billion. $168billion if you include “contractual obligations”. This is all available on government website. Not sure where you get your figures from.
But last week hydro said it was maxed out…but yet this day had higher demand and we had enough electricity for all demands.. someone is lying to us…..Nov 2006 we had a record…and again enough power for all.. everyone has more stuff plugged in now then in 2006.. but we still have enough to meet the demands.. also electrical items are getting more efficient etc…again impacting the demand for power….. so so why do we need this damn again ?
We are on a shared “grid” with Washington, Oregon and California….maybe we imported some ?
Doubtful…we sell to all of them… think California still owes us 13 billion..
No. In fact we were sued, lost and had to pay them millions in damages! Apparently we took advantage of them by overcharging them when they had a severe power shortage.
The tesla gigafactory just yesterday flipped the switch ON . They are in production and will double world production of storage this year . Now we will see huge downward pressure on the price of storage . By the time site C transmits it first electron there will be no market for it and if there is it won’t be at the high price that some imagine .
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