The following report is from Reuters:
In Tokyo and eight nearby prefectures in eastern Japan, excess generating capacity will drop as low as 3.7% for half an hour on Monday afternoon until 5 p.m. (0800 GMT), according to estimates released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). A buffer of 3% is considered the minimum required for a stable power supply.
The ministry urged users to curb power consumption between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to avert a possible power crunch.
Please save as much power as possible, such as by turning off lights that are not in use.
It said in a statement.
The ministry also urged care to avoid heat stroke with appropriate use of air conditioning.
As of mid-afternoon on Sunday, 46 people in Tokyo had been taken to hospital with suspected heat stroke, public broadcaster NHK said.
Separately, a 94-year-old man in Kawagoe city, 20 kilometers (12 miles) northwest of Tokyo, died of suspected heat stroke after he was discovered unconscious in his non-air-conditioned room on Saturday, NHK said.
Isezaki city, 85 kilometers (53 miles) northwest of Tokyo, logged Japan’s highest temperature ever for June on Saturday, breaking above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Farenheit), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Japan’s power supply has been tight with many of its nuclear power plants still shut after the tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, while aging thermal power plants are being closed in part to reach its goal to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Read full story
The country also faces a potential shortage of fossil fuels, including liquefied natural gas, due to the conflict in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Japanese government: ‘Hey, cutback on electricity, you are blowing up our grid; but be sure to keep the AC running so you don’t die of the heat!’
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Proverbs 14:15
Whatever the official fake story will be, you need to be prepared in more ways than one if a grid-down scenario happens. If it doesn’t, then you lose nothing; but it you are not prepared, you will surely have a ‘time of it.’
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I went to the supermarket yesterday, and I noticed they turned off over half the shelves and freezers’ lights. It looked unusually dark.
Sounds like they were actually serious, unlike the US who just experiments propaganda on its people to see what sticks.