The largest U.S. grid operator is leaning on more than 65 million people to conserve electricity to keep the lights on as a frigid winter storm moves over the East
of the conservation efforts to keep us from having to take more severe measures potentially rotating customer outages which is what we re trying to prevent and conservation helps a lot. when can you expect customers to return to normal, normal everyday power usage? we re thinking tomorrow afternoon should be fine and many customers will be unaffected by this, but the customers who do have the opportunity to take some measures, that will be very helpful because we ve seen it work. i don t know if we said this in the introduction, but can you just clarify. how does someone know if this applies to them? what is the area? how can they find out? so pjm is 13 states and the district of columbia. we go from the new york border down to north carolina, out to chicago and down to tennessee. our thanks to michael bryson for all of that important information. let s go to cnn s carlos suarez
livestream christmas mass rather than attend in person. three people have died due to extreme winter weather in western new york. the bishop tweeted although it is christmas any these dangerous conditions no one should put themselves or others at risk. today the power grid operator for 13 states is asking the public to conserve power warning of potential rolling blackouts. this organization serves 65 million people and they re advising consumers to set the thermostats lower than usual and to postpone major appliances like a stove or dish washer. earlier we talked to michael bryson, the senior vp of operations. let s take a look at what he said. as you pointed out, we have 65 million customers and given the very cold weather and given the holiday season, we just really want customers to do their best to try to reduce energy usage as much as possible. it might be just turning a couple of lights off in the