Southwest Power Pool Requests Energy Electricity Reductions
I don't know if your area is in the Southwest Power Pool or not. Why is Missouri in a southwest pool??
WARNING BLACKOUT SLIDE:
You are in the Southwest part of the state. We are in the Ameren UE MO./Illinois section. Our former supplier Arkansas-MO was purchased and combined with Union Electric.
Amren MO?/Ill has stated that they have no plans for rolling blackouts. Yet we already do all the stuff that was listed to keep electric usage low - because here it is very expensive so we try to keep usage down in our all electric home.
Our great room is nice and warm—due to the fireplace insert, and that keeps the central heat from kicking on.
I do have a small heater in the basement by the computer. When the temp dropped to 60 degrees in that room today, I finally gave in and turned on the baseboard heater. Had to pull the couch out to the middle of the family room. It got to 68 degrees now.
Hubby has been promising to test the generator for the last 3 months, but didn’t ever do it. So if our electric goes out and the generator doesn’t work — someone is gonna be in big trouble.
He did finally wind up getting fuel for the Kerosene heaters, but then you have to worry about ventilation. SMH
Thanks for the link.