alternate names for power, utility, hydro, electricity?

buickanddeere · Feb 12, 2009

What are the common terms used in your area for the electrical supply to your home or business?
Around here it's "Hydro".

Anonymous-0 · Feb 12, 2009

We always called it power on the high rise construction sites, temp power etc.

Angle Iron · Feb 12, 2009

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Shetland Sheepdog · Feb 12, 2009

(quoted from post at 16:45:34 02/12/09) What are the common terms used in your area for the electrical supply to your home or business?
Around here it's "Hydro".

Our electric utility is "PSNH" (Public Service of New Hampshire) an investor owned company which is often called "the electric company" or "Public Service". Our electric service is referred to as: "Lights", "Service", "Power" anong other things. The lines are strung on utility poles quite often referred to as "telephone poles" I spent 20 years working for PSNH as a "Line Worker", often called a "line man". :shock:

:lol:
Dave 8)

John in MD · Feb 12, 2009

When I was growing up we called it current. If our electricity was out we would call the next place over to see if they had current.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 12, 2009

Billy, suprised you didn't call it Hydro too. The term comes from Hydro Electric Power/Water wheel or turbine/ Niagra Falls.
Later Bob

thurlow · Feb 12, 2009

If it goes off, as it did yesterday for 4 hours during the wind storm, it's, "Lights are off", as in calling the neighbor and saying, "Y'all got any lights?" or sometimes, "Our 'lectricity is out".

Anonymous-0 · Feb 12, 2009

Yes, and although I don't know a lot about those hydroelectric plants, I'll be honest, I never heard anyone call it that before, I must be living in the dark ages

linemen always called it power too. Kind of a dialect specific to where you are from it seems, though maybe closer to your area on our side, might be different, I'm close to 400 miles to the east of Buffalo.

There were a lot of those smaller hydroelectric plants around, on the Hudson and or Mohawk rivers, my father was friends with an entrepreneur who bought one that was dilapidated, (I think there was a time when many of them were in disrepair, providing an opportunity to invest, rebuild and sell them) When rebuilt, I think they were sold back to the utility company, but not completely sure, I do know that this individual turned a few of them around and it was very profitable, was the foundation for a successful commercial building development company, the guys name escapes me right now.

I'll ask around & see if anyone else in this area ever called it that, don't ever recall hearing the term used for power. I've seen a lot of them from the river while fishing in a canoe, one near the old ford radiator plant in Green Island, was great place to catch herring for bait.

case441 · Feb 12, 2009

Southern tier, NY. "POWER". Lights flickering at 4 pm today.

rrlund · Feb 12, 2009

Electricity

ejr-IA · Feb 12, 2009

Around here they call it power.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 12, 2009

I had not thought of this in a long time but my grandpa use to call it juice. He would call us when the elect. was off an ask if our juice was off.

landlord7012 · Feb 12, 2009

Fuel and Light

MarkB_MI · Feb 12, 2009

When I worked outside Cairo, anytime the power went out the Egyptians would say, "it is Aswan!"; meaning that there was nothing they could do about it, since no power was coming from the Aswan Dam. (Or, more likely, there was nothing they intended to do, since if the power came back on they would have to go back to work.)

charles lendman · Feb 12, 2009

Whatever you do DON"T call it BONUS!! It's a retention incentive!! LOL!!! Charles

Nebraska Cowman · Feb 12, 2009

Here it is electricity. But you might call a neighbor and as if his "power" was off. The "power" seems to go "off" But when restored the "lights" come back "on". The lines themselves are REA lines, REA poles, etc. Telephone poles are pretty much a thing of the past but I know where there are some still standing. Some of the old timers call them telegraph poles.

IH2444 · Feb 12, 2009

Lektrick.

Mark - IN. · Feb 12, 2009

Juice.

Used in a sentence: "His wife told him to call an electrician, but he decided to save some money and got juiced somethin awful doin it himself, but the life insurance policy set her up pretty good, so I married her".

Mark

Bob · Feb 13, 2009

"The REA" or "The Co-op".

Leroy · Feb 13, 2009

Never heard it called hydro either, and none of our power comes from that kind of generating plant.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 13, 2009

In Manitoba, Hydro and electricity are synonymous. It costs the consumer $.061 per kwhr and we export a lot of it and the province is in the process of developing lots more.

pete black · Feb 13, 2009

worked for 26 yrs. for the Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)a federal agency in a variety of positions in electric production and transmission. TVA produces electricity with hydro, coal fired steam, nuclear powered steam, oil/natural gas fired turbines. this is then sold to distributors which are co-operatives (rural) or municipals (city). as others stated, when it goes off the customers calls it "powers off", when it is restored, its "the lights are on".

Eric SEI · Feb 13, 2009

For us it's the Electric Co-op or the REMC. I understand that only Indiana has REMCs, everybody else has RECs.

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