We previously mentioned how the Pico household are not completely dependent upon electricity for heat, but that doesn’t include our daughter’s house in Lexington. She has a gas furnace, but it requires sparktricity to run.

LG&E and KU doing ‘brief service interruptions,’ asking for customers to conserve energy

by Audrey Fowler | Friday, December 23, 2022 | 9:06 PM EST

(LEX 18) — The winter storm has caused many outages across the state. Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities are asking for customers to reduce their energy consumption.

LG&E and KU are also performing “brief service interruptions” in intervals to “minimize extended impacts” on customers.

They say outage durations will vary but range around 30 minutes.

There’s more at the original, but it’s simple: while the Biden Administration and the global warming climate change emergency activists want everyone to switch to non-fossil fuel heating sources — meaning electricity — Kentucky Utilities, which serves Lexington, and our daughter’s house, is having to employ “brief service interruptions” to keep the power on for everyone, even though power needs are reduced by having “many outages” across the Bluegrass State.

Think about it: while most people’s gas furnaces use 110-volt, 20-amp circuits for their required electricity needs, electric heat pumps or baseboard heaters require 220-volt circuits, and, depending upon the system, more amperage.

Our daughter has sparktricity back, so the furnace is on again. But if Kentucky Utilities is unable to provide sufficient power in an area where most people have gas furnaces, how the heck does anyone think they could do so if everyone had electric heat?