If the time comes when the grid at Clark County REMC is being overloaded:
- First, REMC will ask members to voluntarily cut back on non-essential power use, such as lightning, game systems and small appliances.
- Next, we will be contacted by our power suppliers and instructed to prepare for a potential emergency.
- At that time we will invite our large commercial members to shut down or run on generator power. One large company running off of generators could prevent 200 homes from going without power during an emergency.
- If we still haven’t saved enough energy, we will be instructed to turn off the electricity to a small part of our territory, but only for a short time, usually less than one hour. When that time is up, we will turn the power back on for the first group and create a 30-minute outage for another group. We will repeat that process until the emergency is over.