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How Alberta’s energy-only market contributed to cold-snap gridlock | Edmonton Journal

If 300,000 Alberta homes operate their clothes dryers at the same time, that sucks down more electricity than the output of the province’s largest gas plant.

But it wasn’t only dryers — nor block heaters — but a cluster of factors that sent Albertans scrambling to unplug in -35 C cold on Jan. 13, when they received piercing grid alerts on their cellphones, laptops and big-screen TVs, warning of imminent rolling power outages.

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The province was 200 megawatts short of the power needed to keep the lights on.

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