When and How You Use Energy Might Change: Here's Why
Emerging tech can guide you to use electricity when cleaner power is available -- and to use less when the grid needs it.
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Emerging tech can guide you to use electricity when cleaner power is available -- and to use less when the grid needs it.
CHRIS HUBBUCH As record-breaking cold swept across Texas this week, millions of people were left shivering in the dark as the stateâs power grid failed to meet the surging demand for electricity, crippled by temperatures in the single digits. So why does the power continue to work in places like Wisconsin, where bitter cold is a way of life? The reason is simple: Generators in the Upper Midwest are designed to work in frigid conditions, unlike those in Texas. âWe designed all our infrastructure for these bitter-cold temperatures,â said Paul Wilson, a professor of nu...
So why does the power continue to work in places like Wisconsin, where bitter cold is a way of life? The reason is simple.
Power generators in Midwest built to withstand freezing weather, utilities say.