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Voluntary Chili Suspension Now Mandatory

The Demand Response Division makes the Voluntary Chili Suspension mandatory, ending unscheduled private chili — a load the forecast cannot see or curtail.

From the series: Advisories & Programs
A municipal enforcement placard bearing the seal of the Office of Civic Digestion, showing a covered chili pot with a diagonal band across it and a banner reading SUSPENSION NOW MANDATORY.

Office of Civic Digestion Demand Response Division

Notice No. CD-2026-0478 · Effective July 13, 2026

The Voluntary Chili Suspension, in effect as an advisory since the start of the conservation period, is now mandatory. Compliance was appreciated. It was also, per CommodeNet, uneven.

The Division wishes to be clear about scope. The municipal chili cookoff remains a scheduled asset and is not affected; the calendar is the grid's friend. What ends today is unscheduled, private, off-calendar chili — a single-batch load the forecast cannot see coming and the interconnect cannot curtail once served.

A ruled two-column schedule listing chili events, the scheduled municipal cookoff marked permitted, the private and off-calendar rows stamped suspended.
Fig. 1 —Disposition Schedule C. The cookoff is a scheduled asset; the freelance batch is not.

Effective immediately:

  1. Suspend private chili preparation. Households may not initiate a chili event outside the municipal calendar for the duration of the conservation period. Beans held in reserve are permitted; beans committed to heat are not.

  2. Defer to the cookoff. Residents with chili ambitions are directed to the next scheduled municipal cookoff, where output is metered, staggered, and counted toward the district's good standing.

  3. Report freelance batches. A chili event on an unlit street after 8:00 p.m. is, to this Division, a generator no one dispatched.

  4. Suspension lifts with the stage. Private chili resumes when the service territory returns to Advisory, and not one pot before.

Once served, a bowl of unscheduled chili cannot be recalled, only absorbed. The Division has nothing against chili. It has a great deal against a load it did not forecast.