OCCC students may have to save their online work more often and bundle up inside their homes throughout this weekend.

Due to high levels of energy usage with limited wind and natural gas power, Oklahoma Gas & Electric has announced they may or may not continue implementing rolling blackouts throughout the weekend.

This is the first time in the state’s history scheduled rolling blackouts have been planned.

Monday afternoon OG&E announced the company would start power interruptions. By Monday night, however, OG&E said the order to start the service interruption had been postponed “FOR NOW.”

However, Tuesday the power gird reached Emergency Level 3, which means it no longer had enough power to serve all customers.
OCCC administrators reached out to faculty to alert them and to ask for patience.

“OGE [stet] has announced rolling blackouts for the metro area of up to 1.5 hours with little or no warning. Please work with your students regarding deadlines or other issues they may experience due to the rolling blackouts,” Dr. Thomas Harrison, dean of Arts, English, and Humanities, said in an email sent to all professors in his division.

These blackouts are to ensure that the power grid as a whole does not fail.
OG&E urges everyone to set thermostats lower than usual, postpone using major electric appliances until mid-day or after 9 p.m., turn off lights and appliances that are not needed or used.

The push to reduce power utilization comes from the Southwest Power Pool and directed to the 14 states for which it operates the power grid.

There has been no announcement about which cities or neighborhoods would be affected nor when the blackouts would occur.

The college closed campus Tuesday for inclimate weather. In its notification about closing, it did not list the blackouts as a cause.

The college’s technology instructional department attempted to explain to those on campus how the blackouts could affect them.

“Each of us, as well as the College may experience power outages over the coming days,” Information and Instructional Technology Service officials said in an email sent to the college community Monday.

“When that happens on campus, the data center and critical infrastructure are powered by an emergency generator.”

“However, computers around campus are not. Most are connected to a small UPS that will only sustain power for a small amount of time and then your computer will lose power,” IITS said.

IITS said employees and students on campus should know if they lose connection to their computers or are not able to connect to their computers, it is possible that power has been lost at the campus.

To help identify computers that have lost power on-campus users are asked to send an email to techsupport@occc.edu.

OCCC students may have to save their online work more often and bundle up inside their homes this week.

Due to high levels of energy usage with limited wind and natural gas power, Oklahoma Gas & Electric has announced they may or may not be implementing rolling blackouts throughout the week.

This is the first time in the state’s history scheduled rolling blackouts have been planned.

This afternoon OG&E announced the company would start power interruptions. By Monday night, however, OG&E said the order to start the service interruption had been postponed “FOR NOW.”

Due to high levels of energy usage with limited wind and natural gas power, Oklahoma Gas & Electric has announced they might be implementing rolling blackouts this week.

Due to high levels of energy usage with limited wind and natural gas power, Oklahoma Gas & Electric has announced they may or may not be implementing rolling blackouts.

This is the first time in the state’s history scheduled rolling blackouts have been planned.

By Monday night, however, OG&E said the order to start the service interruption Monday had been postponed “FOR NOW.”

This is the first time in the state’s history scheduled rolling blackouts have been planned.

“OGE [stet] has announced rolling blackouts for the metro area of up to 1.5 hours with little or no warning. Please work with your students regarding deadlines or other issues they may experience due to the rolling blackouts,” Dr. Thomas Harrison, dean of Arts, English, and Humanities, said in an email sent to all professors in his division.

These blackouts are to ensure that the power grid as a whole does not fail.
OG&E urges everyone to set thermostats lower than usual, postpone using major electric appliances until mid-day or after 9 p.m., turn off lights and appliances that you do not need or are using.

This comes from the Southwest Power Pool and directed to the 14 states for which it operates the power grid.

There has been no announcement about which cities or neighborhoods would be affected nor when the blackouts would occur.

The college is expected to make an announcement today about if on-campus and other activities will be canceled Tuesday or Wednesday as a result of the potential blackouts.

The college’s technology instructional department attempted to explain to those on campus how the blackouts could affect them.

“Each of us, as well as the College may experience power outages over the coming days,” Information and Instructional Technology Service officials said in an email sent to the college community Monday.  

“When that happens on campus, the data center and critical infrastructure are powered by an emergency generator.”

“However, computers around campus are not. Most are connected to a small UPS that will only sustain power for a small amount of time and then your computer will lose power,” IITS said.

 IITS said employees and students on campus should know if they lose connection to their computers or are not able to connect to their computers, it is possible that power has been lost at the campus. 

To help identify computers that have lost power on-campus users are asked to send an email to techsupport@occc.edu.