New Page 1 Click to View a PowerPoint presentation on the July 1999 Electrical Curtailment on OSU Campus. The purpose of this presentation is to make the university community aware of the critical nature of having to curtail our electrical energy usage when we are requested by American Electric Power. With continued growth in the Central Ohio area, transmission line capacity has fallen behind requirements.
Capacity is now marginal.
Generation capacity has suffered from similar limitations. There have been no new units put on line in years. Some of the old, inefficient units have been decommissioned. Also, during extremely hot weather, generation stations are unable to dissipate sufficient amounts of heat. More if the capacity isn t there.