Nova Scotia Power is asking customers to conserve energy, as the frigid weather puts added pressure on the province\u2019s power system.<\/p>\n
With <\/a>windchills making it feel as cold as -28<\/a>, the power company is expecting greater demand from heating systems.<\/p>\n \u201cOur teams have been preparing all our power generating sites this week to make sure they are producing as much power as possible,\u201d a spokesperson for Nova Scotia Power said in a press release. \u201cWe are also using our two new grid-scale battery sites and working with our neighbouring utilities to support each other wherever we can.\u201d<\/p>\n But conserving energy where you can helps to reduce the risk of outages, which in cold weather can become fatal.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are asking customers to please conserve energy, especially during peak hours of the day (7 a.m. to 11 a.m., and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.),\u201d the power company said. \u201cThe easiest ways to conserve energy are to turn off high consumption appliances and select the lowest comfortable thermostat setting.\u201d<\/p>\n Customers are asked to avoid using high energy appliances like dishwashers, washers and dryers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia Power is asking customers to conserve energy, as the frigid weather puts added pressure on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-432220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}