On Saturday evening, amid extreme cold temperatures near -40 C in most of Alberta, residents received an emergency alert asking them to reduce power use or risk rolling blackouts.
Climate change is already making extreme weather events more frequent across the country and around the world. Extreme cold or heat drives up demand for power for heating and cooling, which can also cause power shortages and increase the risk of emergency measures like rotating blackouts or even unplanned outages.
Here are five strategies that could reduce the risk of shortages during extreme weather events across the country — many of which Alberta successfully
