I work in a large power plant in NYC. We can burn natural gas or #6 fuel oil. Since the spike in oil prices in 2007 and the drop in gas prices, we’ve almost exclusively burned gas.
However, during this colder than usual winter, we’ve been at top load on oil only due to gas restrictions. In fact, the district operator even asked us to fire up the unit that was in the middle of a turbine outage because it could burn oil. They must have been desperate.
FYI our ability to burn oil in the future is in question due to ever increasing regulations. Well at least until there is a black out during the next brutal winter...
Interesting, So when demand for gas is up, you sorta take a back seat. That is horrid that oil is being restricted as well. These people making these decisions are fools, they have no idea what they are doing which leads you to the fact it is deliberate to destroy us, without a power grid that has over capacity for planned and un-planned shutdowns, we will be a 3rd world nation shortly. Which fits with the fundamental transformation and us getting our comeuppance.