[SeeSac]

I know this winter has been very cold but I don't recall electric power blackouts due to excessive demand in previous winters. And it's hard to believe there's more load on the power grid on a cold day, when a most folks heat with natural gas or propane, than on a hot summer day when everyone is running A/C. Something's not adding up.

1. Some plants were not properly winterized leading to shutdowns.
2. More plants have maintenance outages in the winter.
3. NG plants did not get their supplies due to diverting to higher usage residential customers trying to keep their houses warm.
Reduced electrical output meant less power to NG pumping reducing NG supplies.

[thackney]

3. NG plants did not get their supplies due to diverting to higher usage residential customers trying to keep their houses warm.

Do you have a link to any information on that? I didn't see those.

Reduced electrical output meant less power to NG pumping reducing NG supplies.

Nearly all of out Natural Gas supply is Natural Gas powered. Only a few location use electric drive compression.