SOARING HEAT DRAINS STATE ENERGY RESERVES.Byline: Brent Hopkins Staff Writer With temperatures topping 100 in the Southland south·land or South·land n. A region in the south of a country or an area. south  land·er n.Noun 1. on Monday, reliance on electrically produced coolness was again draining energy reserves to low levels. The California Independent System Operator, manager of California's power grid, declared a Stage Two alert Monday, its 11th of the year and fifth in two weeks. Triple-digit heat is expected throughout the rest of the week, the National Weather Service reported. ``It's hot enough that records can get broken,'' weather specialist Clint Simpson said. Local records remained intact Monday, but the temperatures were hot. Palmdale led with a high of 103, followed by Lancaster with 102, Woodland Hills and Chatsworth with 101, Van Nuys with 97, Burbank at 94 and downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or at 89. In order for Cal-ISO to declare a Stage Two alert, power reserves must fall below 5 percent. Under Stage Two, customers who sign up for the voluntary load curtailment plan can have their power shut off until reserves return to manageable levels. Even if heat continues, an upgrade to a Stage Three alert, under which utility companies begin initiating rolling blackouts Rolling blackout refers to an intentionally-engineered electrical power outage, caused by insufficient available resources to meet prevailing demand for electricity. For information about accidental blackouts that are not intentionally engineered, see power outage. , is not foreseen, said Lorie O'Donely, spokeswoman for Cal-ISO. To help cut down on the burden placed upon reserves, SCE SCE (in Scotland) Scottish Certificate of Education SCE n abbr (= Scottish Certificate of Education) → Schulabschlusszeugnis in Schottland encourages customers not to set their thermostats below 78 degrees and to defer use of nonessential non·es·sen·tial adj. Being a substance required for normal functioning but not needed in the diet because the body can synthesize it. appliances until the evening, after peak hours peak hours npl, peak period n → horas fpl punta peak hours peak npl → heures fpl d'affluence or de pointe have passed. CAPTION(S): box Box: HEAT WAVE Daily News |
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