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Yes. Here's the actual event, from the PJM dashboard. Note the times. The problem lasted less than 4 hours. Once they got past the early evening peak, things were OK. Times are EST.

An Emergency Load Mgmt Reduction Action and a NERC level EEA2 have been issued. Load reductions should continue until released by PJM. Reductions are mandatory based on product requirements. CSPs should review DR Hub for specific registration details.

Affected:

DR (Demand response hub)

AEP (American Electric Power)

COMED (Commonwealth Edison)

DOM (Dominion Energy)

DPL (Dayton Power and Light)

FE-ATSI (First Energy, American Transmission Systems)

FE-PN (First Energy, Pennsylvania)

Posting time: 12.23.2022 17:51

Start time: 12.23.2022 18:00

Cancellation time: 12.23.2022 21:30

I got an email 11 hours after the event ended telling me I needed to volunteer to cut power. Opps.

Shouldn't have called it emergency is just feeding a thirsty news cycle

it was an emergency which was then alleviated

imagine not dialing 911 because you don't want to give the news free content...

It is a procedure in place with well defined targets, not an unexpected break in

You can plan for, and define responses to, emergencies. That doesn't make them not emergencies.

Why do I feel like this thread is giving the word emergency an existential crisis :)

To be an emergency or not to be an emergency, that is the question!

An common use of "emergency" in a similar manner, if I have stomach issues and need to use the toilet now, I will call the situation an emergency even if I haven't yet soiled my pants. If I reach the bathroom in time, the emergency ends with no major incident.

Quite right. If there is a fire in your house, it is still an emergency even if you have an extinguisher and evacuation plan.

Above didn't say that, everything someone planned for is "not unexpected" to some degree, but doesn't make it less an emergency or deviation from normal operation or how you want to call it?

They have contracts in place that promise savings in exchange of shutdowns at peaks. You can't get more normal and regulated than that.

So was my surgery for testicular torsion. Still considered a (medical) emergency.

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