Single-day record for natural gas consumption set Wednesday: Hydro
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This article was published 01/02/2019 (2472 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Turns out the recent cold snap didn’t just result in Manitoba Hydro posting an electrical consumption record — it also smashed a natural gas use record, twice.
Manitoba Hydro spokesman Bruce Owen said natural gas consumption Tuesday — when Environment Canada reported the mercury plunged to -38.5 C in Winnipeg — broke a record that had stood since 2004.
It didn’t take another 15 years for that record to fall again. It happened the next day, when temperatures dropped to a low of 39.9C, he said.
“To put the magnitude of the natural gas consumption on both of these days into context: if Manitoba Hydro had been forced to serve that energy requirement with hydroelectricity, we would have needed well over 6,000 megawatts of additional generating capacity in the province,” Owen said Friday.
“That’s more than a 100 per cent increase over and above what we actually have today.”
Earlier this week, Manitoba Hydro announced it had set an electrical consumption record Wednesday morning, with a peak load of 4,924 megawatts, beating the former record of 4,801 megawatts set Jan. 13, 2017.
Owen said he couldn’t release the actual figures for natural gas consumption because the utility’s Centra Gas division “operates in a competitive market.”
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