Texas Governor Orders More Fossil Fuels and Nuclear for Electric Reliability vs Green Blackouts larouchepub.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from larouchepub.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
-Submitted photo
Josie Ubben, of Fort Dodge, is engineering and operations assistant at Corn Belt Power Cooperative in Humboldt. Sheâs been with the company since 2003.
-Submitted photo
Josie Ubben, of Fort Dodge, is engineering and operations assistant at Corn Belt Power Cooperative in Humboldt. Sheâs been with the company since 2003.
HUMBOLDT As engineering and operations assistant at Corn Belt Power Cooperative, Josie Ubben is responsible for things like coordinating construction activities with contractors and surveying substation sites and transmission lines.
She is one of just two women who work in a department that employs over 50 men. But that fact has never deterred Ubben from reaching and obtaining her goals.
Feb 17, 2021
HUMBOLDT Utilities across the Midwest, including Corn Belt Power Cooperative, headquartered in Humboldt, implemented load control measures and temporary service disruptions to some meters on Monday and Tuesday. These highly unusual control measures were needed to protect the supply and demand balance of the electric grid as electric demand exceeded available supply because of extremely cold weather impacting the region over several days.
Many electric utilities across the country are members of one of nine regional transmission organizations and independent system operators, also referred to as power pools. These federally regulated entities work on a regional scale to coordinate, control and monitor supply and demand on the electric grid. RTOs do not own the power grid, but they do work as “air-traffic controllers” of the grid to ensure reliable supplies of power, adequate transmission infrastructure and competitive wholesale electricity prices on behalf of th
1,500 families experience rolling blackouts in north Iowa as record freeze grips the state Philip Joens and Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register
What to do if your car doesn t start in the cold
Replay Video UP NEXT
Iowa has entered its second week, with new records set and a power supplier for a broad swath of northern Iowa counties resorting to rolling blackouts to maintain minimum power reserves.
MidAmerican Energy, which serves most of the Des Moines metro, Waterloo, Iowa City and the Quad Cities, and Alliant Energy, power provider for Cedar Rapids and many other Iowa cities, were unaffected by the blackouts. But MidAmerican on Monday afternoon asked customers to conserve natural gas as extreme weather conditions are impacting supplies around the country.