Peak January

We are experiencing peak demand for electricity here on Prince Edward Island this January, with peak load exceeding 380 MW at the supper hour for each of the last three days. And it’s not even that cold yet.

A reminder that you can use the pei.consuming.ca site to get real time electricity load and generation data, updated every 15 minutes.

Peter Rukavina
Electricity
Prince Edward Island
Maritime Electric

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Someone told me about https://peipower.ca/ the other day - another site with great PEI power consumption visualizations!

More info from the creator here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PEI/comments/1pft7x6/i_built_a_free_dashboard_to_track_peis_power_grid/

We heat our house primarily with electricity (heat pumps), we still have an oil furnace we can fall back on. I'm wondering if we should be burning oil on these peak electric days to try to draw less from the grid (even if the oil is much less efficient in the big picture). I don't know which is the lesser evil.

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It’s currently -5 and we’re less than 25 megawatts away from reaching peak demand, which occurred when PEI was hit with -30 temperatures.

This is a concerning situation. Fortunately, we kept our oil boiler. Threats of rolling blackouts upped my timeline to have a generator panel installed.

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