The general population wants their heat and likely wont do whats necessary to get everyone back up.
Unless we have 90% of the houses, turn off their heat WHEN THE POWER IS OUT, nobody is going to get heat anytime soon.
Right now with power out, every heater in every home is calling for heat and will suck the maximum in through their electric meter as soon as power comes back. That’s like expecting to run everything in your house off a small generator in the garage, won’t happen.
Everyone needs to be assigned an hour on the clock, that when their power comes back, they will willing wait until to start their heat. With a me-first mentality, that won’t happen.
What’s worse is nobody can do this by setting their thermostat to the lowest temperature — their homes are below this right now.
People have to slide the switch from heat/cool to OFF on a thermostat. Or throw off the double pole breakers in the electric panel.