They are taking steps to avoid that, but it’s possible.
Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and electrical appliances, minimizing the use of air conditioning and delaying laundry and other activities requiring electricity-consuming appliances until later in the evening.
Um… I’m not so sure about minimizing the use of air conditioning. 🙂
Nevertheless folks, every bit helps. Check the press release as it contains a lot of simple things you can do to minimize power consumption. Every lightbulb adds up.
Stuff From Hsoi 
I use the heck out of delayed start timers. Dishwasher and laundry run at 3am. AC doesn’t run at all during the day when no one is home.
I’m pretty sure I could cut my electric bill with time of day metering. It is always tempting to try 4¢/kwh off peak electricity.
See that’s my thing…. we’re home all day, A/C has to run all day. Hell on the utilities bill.
You think there’s a lot now?
Wait until next year when they take all the coal powered plants off-line and replace them with the new green Skittle powered ones.
I thought they were going to be powered by unicorn farts.
But yes, I know. I recall some years ago when California was having to go through rolling blackouts because the hippies were so against building any new power plants… and as a result they had no juice to run their websites and espresso machines. No consideration of growth and building infrastructure to support it.
Same thing is going to happen here…. huzzah!
I have a novel idea — instead of people (maybe even people with asthma) having to suffer through hotter houses and rolling black outs; why don’t we try building new power plants.
Hmm, lets see the benefits — construction jobs, jobs working at the plant, plant buying supplies in communities, people having power.
I’m already taking most of the steps to reduce my power consumption — because it is common sense. Just like it is common sense it is going to get hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
Oh I totally agree… but the hippies won’t have anything with that. Because electricity bad.
Wonder how they’ll power their iPhone’s….
Bob-
In Austin the hippies put the kibash on a new nuke plant for AEPs expanded reediness program last year (or two years ago?)
This last year the hippies shut down an expanded nuke plant in Three Rivers for San Antonio’s CPS.
Hippies want to shut down coal plants for the dubious reason that it might save some lives and don’t want nukes because of the (until Kukishima plant) unblemished safety record of western nuclear power might someday let bad stuff into the air.
KurtP,
I think the Hippies should lead the way.
If conservation of energy is such an admirable goal; why don’t they volunteer to have it turned off at their homes and businesses (do’nt laugh, I there are a couple) ?
Oh I totally agree. But you know… they want to have their cake and be able to bake it in microwave ovens, then use their iPhones to Tweet about it and post pictures to Facebook afterwards.