State power grid warns of rotating outages if electricity demand overwhelms supply [ Texas ]

The Dallas Morning News ^ | Feb 14, 2021 | Jesus Jimenez and Krista M. Torralva

[EEGator]

Frozen wind turbines...

[dljordan]

How about a nice nuclear plant?

[jdsteel]

Thaw the windmills with snow covered solar panels. Easy fix, right?

/sarc

[sockmonkey]

Coal, nuclear, natural gas...

[null and void]

There’s a lot to be said for gas furnaces, ovens and water heaters...

[Roccus]

Pinwheel power.

We’ve got those decorations spoiling our ridgelines here as well.

SAD.

[EEGator]

That would make sense, so no.

[piytar]

Yup. They work just fine - except when you need them.

[dragnet2]

electricity operators warned that demand could overwhelm the state’s power grid and force rotating power outages.

So just when ya need it most, you might not have it.

[PAR35]

Are they going to cut power to hospitals and nursing homes so Jerry Jones Stadium gets all the power it needs? That’s what they did a few years ago.

I’m old enough to remember when ERCOT meant Electric *RELIABILITY* Council of Texas

[heavy metal]

biden’s fault...

[BradyLS]

Kinda surprised those wind turbines can freeze up. Those things are YUGE! I would have guessed there are de-icers and heaters to keep them going.

[Da Coyote]

There are many workable solutions.
Liberals are aware (or actively ignore) all of them.

[Grampa Dave]

Sounds like Californicator land, where power failures are often and often unannounced.

[BradyLS]

I’m down. Just gotta convince the science deniers.

[crz]

Tell you what. Us old timers know how to survive. These kids these days have not a clue.

[DesertRhino]

That’s insulting and degrading for Texas to have to have a rolling blackout. If that happens, they need to run the state house in Austin out on a rail. There is absolutely no excuse for an energy rich state that’s relatively capitalist to run low on electricity.

[mjp]

I live in TX. We just had a power outage in my town that lasted all afternoon

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Who could see that potential problem?

Certainly today’s “socialists” who learned well from their predecessors of the 20th Century how to murder over 100 million of their subjects and relegate the rest to penury and misery.