> Not knowing when you'll have a shift scheduled sucks for workers. Not knowing if your regularly-scheduled workers will have favorable weather to do useful wor

> Not knowing when you'll have a shift scheduled sucks for workers. Not knowing if your regularly-scheduled workers will have favorable weather to do useful work when they show up at the plant would suck for employers. I'm not sure if this is such a huge problem. Modern operations require very few human operators, and they do not contribute too much to the actual costs. Worst thing is that you'll just have some people doing nothing waiting for cheaper energy. > If everything freezes up in the production cells because of too little power for too long, it causes damage and it takes a long time to start up again. It takes much less power to keep the aluminum hot than it takes to smelt it, so if power becomes too expensive for smelting, you just use a fraction of it to keep it hot in the cells.