Washington State Energy Company Avista Corp told customers to prepare for blackouts on Tuesday after several lost powers Monday night, as home and business twisted their air conditioning to escape from the brutal heatave.
The company said the planned blackouts for Tuesday “is a protection measure intended to minimize the impact of the customer, reduce tensions in the electrical system and prevent extensive damage to the system that can produce prolonged blackouts.” “The electrical system experiences a new peak demand, and high temperature tension affects the system in a way that requires us to proactively turn off power for some customers,” said CEO Avista Dennis Vermillion in the news release.
Pacific Northwest has been gripped by intense heataves that have closed a lot of everyday life for residents.
High temperatures in Seattle, the largest city in the US Pacific Northwest, will reach 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33 Celsius) on Tuesday, down from record 104 F on Monday, according to Accuweather estimates.
Which compared to normal height is only 73 F this year.
The price of power at the Pacific Northwest for Tuesday subsided with the mid Columbia (Mid C) hub in Washington stated to $ 146 per megawatt hours (MWH) from a record $ 334 for Monday.
Which compares with an average of $ 30 per MWH in mid c for the past five years (2016-2020).
Avista urged all 400,000 customers of his power in Washington, Idaho and Oregon to save energy and warn that many of around 8,000 homes and businesses that experience blackouts on Monday can have the same thing happening on Tuesday.
The company said blackouts would be targeted at 1 pm.
and 8 P.M.
local time and is expected to last one hour.
Some customers may experience more than one blackout with no less than an hour between blackouts.