Best Posts in Thread: NORECO II is Experiencing Rotating Brownouts

Talking of Sunday and for those not on FaceBook this just came up so I thought I would Post it incase it takes time to get to DI

 

That false logic seems to be based on a lack of enough sunlight in cold climates equating to reduced melanin and so lighter skin colour. But as the air-con is used INDOORS it is irrelevant to skin colour; except, of course, if they always stay indoors to enjoy air-con then they will lighten - at the same time the electric bill becomes heavier.

 

Why Brian? it is the smallest of the three Regions and closest and Easiest to obtain Emergency and much need power to some Areas, Seems "Damned if they Do and Damned if they don't"
BTW I came across this from somewhere earlier and although I don't know if it is 100% correct or how true it is it may be useful to know where we could all maybe save a little Electric;

 

I found it interesting that one of the things NORECO used to recommend in their mandatory seminar is turning off the refrigerator for 8 hours overnight. This was translated for me by my ex who attended the seminar. That seems like false economy to me.

One of the best ways to reduce energy consumption by consumers is for NORECO to buy the most energy efficient air conditioners on the market at wholesale prices and sell/install them for their customers on a lease to own plan. The savings most consumers would have on their electric bill would make the payments. NORECO could make a small profit on the air conditioners and overall electric use would decline as people got rid of those energy sucking, cheap window aircons.

How would they pay for it? Investors could pay the cost of the units and installation and get a fair rate of interest over the time the units are being paid off.

Just a thought as I walk down the street and see all those power sucking air cons stressing the system.

 

Hey Jack, thanks, did look at those. I'm skeptical that Noreco can't do something like this. I would be surprised if noreco has NO control over which feeders rotate out, I would think they just get instructions on how much to shed, not instructions on which feeders ??.

As far as under-grounding, several factors, such as earthquakes, cost of underground versus new poles, ease of access, construction work with lack of detailed concern about underground conduit locations. Undergrounding utilities in california was $250,000 USD PER BLOCK, over P12 million for each block, but that's there, not here.....