By Oli Herrera

ENERGY DEMANDS

BC Hydro breaks energy demand records three days in a row

Jun 29, 2021 | 3:21 PM

PRINCE GEORGE–BC Hydro says that the extreme heat has set record-breaking electricity demands three days in rows.

The old record for peak summer time hourly consumption was 7,900 megawatts which was broken on Saturday. Yesterday, a new record was set at 8,500 megawatts.

BC Hydro believes that through the rest of the summer we might get close to the new record but won’t break it again unless another heat wave occurs. The company says they’re more than prepared for high energy demands.

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“We have lots of water in our reservoirs and our hydro-electric generating stations are making clean power all over the place that got lots of capacity for that. As we were talking, in wintertime we do go up to peaks of 10,000 megawatts at a time, system-wide. So where we’re at today, it’s high but it’s nowhere near what we consume in the winter time. ” said Bob Gammer, Community Relations Manager, BC Hydro.