[Outages-discussion] Southwest Power Pool down

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Feb 15 16:48:56 EST 2021


For the record, I just successfully loaded their site here, on my phone, probably ipv4 via Spectrum/Road Runner, because I think my router blocks IPv6 at the moment.

On February 15, 2021 3:41:36 PM EST, Andy Ringsmuth <andy at andyring.com> wrote:
>Well, electricity too in many places, but their web site:
>
>https://www.spp.org/
>
>is also down. As recent (within the last hour) news reports have
>indicated, the Southwest Power Pool, which manages electricity supply
>for more than 14 states, is experiencing insane demand due to the
>equally insane cold temperatures across the United States. They are
>working with their member organizations/power companies to implement
>rolling blackouts in an effort to preserve the entire electricity grid.
>
>Wouldn’t surprise me if their site was down simply because millions of
>people in affected areas tried to look them up. Just a hunch though.
>
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>
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