While cold weather across the state, energy companies are struggling to keep up with the demand for natural gas.
OG&E continues to ask its customers to save energy to avoid the disruptions.
“The thing that drives it is the unprecedented winter weather that is going on all over the country,” David Kimmel told OG&E.
If the system overloads again, residents can expect scheduled power outages every 24 hours. Each break lasts no longer than one hour.
“If we continue with these planned interruptions, we will try to notify customers as well as possible that something is going to happen, although we are not sure we will be able to tell exactly when and what time it could take place,” Kimmel said. said. .
If that happens, it’s going to be difficult to plan which parts of Oklahoma will be affected and when.
“Our capacity is about 6,000 megawatts and we have to shed about 75 megawatts, so about 1% of our cargo,” Kimmel said. “It will amount to a different set of households, depending on where it is in our service area, and it also depends on whether it is business or residential, it will not necessarily be all residential.”
OG&E hopes that the threat of disruptions will be over by Wednesday, and that residents will have to prepare in the meantime.
Do not turn on appliances unless absolutely necessary. All this will make a big difference. “The more we can save and the more we can get online from that generation again, the faster it will pass, and we can become normal again,” Kimmel said.
OG&E has identified businesses that use more power than your regular household and work with them to reduce usage.