Yes, you’re right. This was the first time we ever had rolling blackouts with TVA.
Really it seems that after California, Texas (last year), Tennessee and North Carolina (this year) a pattern is emerging that suggests rolling blackouts are intentional.
Perhaps it’s to get us used to the idea of sometimes not having electricity. You could say use a natural gas furnace or fireplace, but those are also being phased out in some places.
You will own nothing and be happy and cold.
intentional
I live among trees...just cut another 17 down...they going to shut down our wood insert?
As widespread as these rolling blackouts were across TVA, Duke Energy, etc., we can only conclude these blackouts (and brownouts) were political rather than from necessity. I’ve lived in the Tennessee Valley for 66 years. We’ve had colder weather for longer periods and never have we had intentional blackouts. So far, TVA has ignored Sen. Tim Burchett’s questions. Par for the course for TVA. After the blackouts ended we definitely had brownouts (they sent very low energy output to the homes). I tried baking a pineapple upside cake for Christmas...it wasn’t fully baked even though I baked it at the same temp for the same length of time as normal...not enough power coming in. I placed a candle on an electric mugwarmer to melt, instead of melting in 30 minutes it still hadn’t completed melted in 2 1/2 hours. I despise these radiofrequency meter boxes they put us on.