Electric power generation down 8.42% from last year

[FarCenter]

For the week ending November 21, electric power generation was 69,972 million KWHrs, down 8.42% from the week a year ago.

This should have resulted in at least that much CO2 emissions reductions, given that nuclear base load generation is likely to have been relatively constant.

Good for the environment!

[madokie]

1. Plus the ones of us who are conserving is helping

I don't have the figures before me but we used less this past year than the previous years and I even added a couple new electric users. Like my electric yard car I built that cost less than .05 cents to recharge where if I was using a gas engine to to the same job I would have used a hundred times that in cost.

[lunatica]

2. Being more conservative in home use of electricity is paying off

LCD light bulbs, turning lights out when you leave rooms, changing the thermostat and using it wisely make a difference. Finding out that it's working on a grand scale is very good news.

[NYC_SKP]

3. The economic downturn, mostly. But I'm all for it.

I'd like to turn out the lights on Las Vegas, actually.

If it's non-essential, it should have to be generated by renewable sources.

That should be law.

:patriot:

[whistler162]

4. Actually they turned off all the wind turbines and solar arrays

to achieve that number!

[marketcrazy1]

5. factory closings, production cutbacks, unemployment = less power usage.

GREAT!! :sarcasm:

[itsrobert]

6. +1 n/t

n/t

[SoCalDem]

7. and unoccupied, foreclosed houses too.. n/t