I’m in California where the grid gets stressed out during the summer. Ocassionally, on high demand days, the power company woud perform rolling blackouts to keep up with demand.
Lived close to a large hospital for a while. Our section of the grid never saw those blackouts.
We had a vent for a bit in our house. Called pg&e and then our block (just 20 houses) got coded the same as the hospital in outages. I can’t remember what kind of supporting documents we had to send in. We lost power last in rolling blackouts. They let us keep that for a good… year after dad died? So someone else on the street must have been on a vent too.
Lived close to a large hospital for a while. Our section of the grid never saw those blackouts.
Same except it we are right under a cell tower. It must be somewhere very high on the priority list - probably for emergency services. We are always the first to get power back after a storm too.
If you own your home, I know that seems to be shrinkingly rare in this state, a solar setup and battery backup/ grid controller is well worth it. Mine will pay for itself with the power I’ve sold to SDG&E, not to mention all the power I use, in another year or so. I installed my system in mid 2019, and we don’t even know when there’s a blackout/brownout until I text the ISP as to why the Internet is out. I should really get a meshnet node…
My primary forms of transportation are my E-bike and the trolley. If I can’t get there that way, or need additional cargo capacity, I have a Chevy Bolt, so I’m actually using a fail amount of electricity above and beyond the normal appliances.
I’m in California where the grid gets stressed out during the summer. Ocassionally, on high demand days, the power company woud perform rolling blackouts to keep up with demand.
Lived close to a large hospital for a while. Our section of the grid never saw those blackouts.
We had a vent for a bit in our house. Called pg&e and then our block (just 20 houses) got coded the same as the hospital in outages. I can’t remember what kind of supporting documents we had to send in. We lost power last in rolling blackouts. They let us keep that for a good… year after dad died? So someone else on the street must have been on a vent too.
Same except it we are right under a cell tower. It must be somewhere very high on the priority list - probably for emergency services. We are always the first to get power back after a storm too.
If you own your home, I know that seems to be shrinkingly rare in this state, a solar setup and battery backup/ grid controller is well worth it. Mine will pay for itself with the power I’ve sold to SDG&E, not to mention all the power I use, in another year or so. I installed my system in mid 2019, and we don’t even know when there’s a blackout/brownout until I text the ISP as to why the Internet is out. I should really get a meshnet node…
My primary forms of transportation are my E-bike and the trolley. If I can’t get there that way, or need additional cargo capacity, I have a Chevy Bolt, so I’m actually using a fail amount of electricity above and beyond the normal appliances.