{"683490":{"#nid":"683490","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Will People Conserve Energy During Emergency Heat Waves?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis June, New York City\u2019s government and utility urged households to conserve electricity during an extreme heat wave with temperatures reaching 100 degrees F. People were asked to set air conditioners to 76 degrees, to avoid using more than one air conditioning unit, and to delay using electricity-hungry appliances during peak cooling hours.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe big concern is that when every air conditioning unit is running at full blast, electricity demand can exceed total generating capacity and force the utility to implement rolling blackouts.\u0026nbsp;These rolling blackouts avoid a total system failure but leave people without access to cooling and other electronics as temperatures reach dangerous levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs temperatures peak in the United States during the coming weeks, utilities and city governments may follow suit with similar requests for voluntary conservation.\u0026nbsp;Voluntary requests for conservation in the United States are part of the standard energy emergency playbook and go back at least to President Carter\u2019s request for Americans to reduce heating temperatures during the 1977 energy crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, do voluntary conservation requests work to save energy and prevent blackouts?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/2025\/08\/01\/will-people-conserve-energy-during-emergency-heat-waves\/\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the EPIcenter Newspage\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis June, New York City\u2019s government and utility urged households to conserve electricity during an extreme heat wave with temperatures reaching 100 degrees F. People were asked to set air conditioners to 76 degrees, to avoid using more than one air conditioning unit, and to delay using electricity-hungry appliances during peak cooling hours.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe big concern is that when every air conditioning unit is running at full blast, electricity demand can exceed total generating capacity and force the utility to implement rolling blackouts.\u0026nbsp;These rolling blackouts avoid a total system failure but leave people without access to cooling and other electronics as temperatures reach dangerous levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs temperatures peak in the United States during the coming weeks, utilities and city governments may follow suit with similar requests for voluntary conservation.\u0026nbsp;Voluntary requests for conservation in the United States are part of the standard energy emergency playbook and go back at least to President Carter\u2019s request for Americans to reduce heating temperatures during the 1977 energy crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, do voluntary conservation requests work to save energy and prevent blackouts?\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dylan Brewer, EPIcenter\u0027s Faculty Affiliate discusses if voluntary conservation requests work to save energy and prevent blackouts."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2025-08-04 13:35:33","changed_gmt":"2025-08-04 13:35:50","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/2025\/08\/01\/will-people-conserve-energy-during-emergency-heat-waves\/","title":"Read Story on EPIcenter Newspage"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWritten by: Dylan Brewer, Faculty Affiliate, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEPIcenter\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026amp; Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}