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    High power demand due to cold snap: BC Hydro

    Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Jan, 2024 11:37 AM
    • High power demand due to cold snap: BC Hydro

    B-C Hydro says the extreme cold temperatures saw the province experience a record-high power demand.

    The public utility says in a statement it reached record demand highs on Friday night of eleven thousand three hundred megawatts.

    B-C Hydro says the previous record was set in December 2022 at almost eleven hundred megawatts.

    Josie Osborne, B-C's energy minister, says B-C Hydro was able to meet the province's needs during the cold snap.

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