{"id":140556,"date":"2026-02-02T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:54:08","slug":"cold-weather-triggers-power-grid-warning-for-central-florida-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140556\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather triggers power grid warning for Central Florida customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Energy companies in Central Florida are urging customers to try to conserve power on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This comes after a weekend of sub-freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Utility providers are asking residents to reduce their electricity usage to prevent excessive strain on the power grid on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Utilities have reached out through various communication channels to warn of increased demand during the coldest parts of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Orlando Utilities Commission customers received voicemail messages with instructions on managing their energy usage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the same time, Florida Power &amp; Light and Duke Energy sent text messages to their customers containing similar information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The companies identified specific times when the electrical system will face the highest demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The period from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. is expected to be the most stressed time for the power grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Energy companies in Central Florida are urging customers to try to conserve power on Monday. This comes after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147,3401,7008,68299,28,30,29,2837,22369,12293],"class_list":{"0":"post-140556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-central-florida","9":"tag-duke-energy","10":"tag-energy-companies","11":"tag-excessive-strain","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-florida-power-light","16":"tag-orlando-utilities-commission","17":"tag-power-grid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140556","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=140556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}