By Courtney Mintenko

Severe cold snap doesn’t lead to record power or gas consumption

Jan 6, 2014 | 8:20 PM

People in Saskatchewan managed to stay warm throughout the latest cold snap without setting any records.

SaskEnergy reports natural gas use is high, but falls short of breaking any consumption records. SaskPower is seeing the same situation.

“It may have had something to do with the day of the week. Yesterday being Sunday, lots of businesses are closed and people are at home more,” said Tyler Hopson, spokesperson for SaskPower.

Home usage, business usage and industrial loads impact use of both natural gas and power. With the coldest temperatures hitting on the weekend, both Crowns suspect there was not enough business and industrial usage to break records as there might have been during the week.

SaskPower did record a monthly usage peak Sunday at 3,449 megawatts.

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“Which is fairly high, but still not as high as the record that was set on Dec. 6 last year,” Hopson said.

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