Last Updated ：2025/11/21

load shedding

Noun

uncountable

Japanese Meaning

電力需要の不足に対処するため、電力会社が一部の顧客への供給を意図的に停止する措置

The city prepared emergency shelters after several nights of load shedding disrupted heating in low-income neighborhoods.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

市は、数夜にわたる輪番停電で低所得地域の暖房が止まった後、緊急避難所の準備を整えた。

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(aviation) The process of minimizing usage of electrical power by powering down nonessential equipment following an electrical generation failure, or to reduce the risk of an electrical fire in certain situations.

Based on the reported weather at Carbondale, it should have been apparent that he would need electrical power to operate his radio navigation instruments on arrival since he most probably would have to execute an instrument approach to land. Therefore, to insure that he could complete the 39-minute flight to Carbondale, all unnecessary electrical loads would have to be shed in order to have residual electrical power. In addition, there was no way the captain could determine the exact charge state of the batteries when the generators failed; therefore, even with proper load shedding procedures, the captain could not have been sure that battery power would last longer than 30 minutes. Given the two options available to the captain when the generators failed, the risks involved in continuing to Carbondale were such that this option should have been rejected summarily.

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