{"id":140065,"date":"2026-02-01T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140065\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:00:07","slug":"the-weekends-bitter-cold-pushed-tallahassees-electricity-demand-towards-an-all-time-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140065\/","title":{"rendered":"The weekend&#8217;s bitter cold pushed Tallahassee&#8217;s electricity demand towards an all-time record."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Tallahassee shivered in abnormally low temperatures over the weekend, the demand on the city&#8217;s electric grid soared to near-record territory. Officials said Sunday morning&#8217;s power demand exceeded 617 megawatts. In an earlier interview, City Manager Reese Goad told WFSU that&#8217;s nearing the system&#8217;s generation capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We set out peak demand, I think it was 621 megawatts, in that range, almost 15 years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Goad says the load can go even higher if needed. The city&#8217;s all-time electric demand was 633 megawatts some years back. Customers are encouraged to watch their power usage, especially between 6 and 9 in the morning when demand is highest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Tallahassee shivered in abnormally low temperatures over the weekend, the demand on the city&#8217;s electric grid soared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-140065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}