Lafourche and Terrebonne residents asked to conserve electricity use tonight
The Courier and Daily Comet
Residents of Terrebonne and Lafourche are being asked to conserve electric power this evening from 6 to 11 p.m. to prevent possible rolling blackouts.
The Terrebonne Parish Utilities Departmment has been instructed to notify and ask customers to conserve electric power Wednesday evening. Forced generation outages combined with extremely low temperatures have caused a sharp increase in demand for electric power which can result in an overload of the electrical grid, said Terrebonne Parish Office of Homeland Security Director Earl Eues in a news release.
SLECA General Manager Joe Ticheli said that the company has been posting updates on social media urging people to continue to reduce energy use and are currently not anticipating rolling blackouts.