Posted on 02/03/2022 5:25:36 PM PST by george76
The Texas grid may fail again this year, according to a local investigative journalist who this week raised the alarm about the grid's state of preparedness ahead of an Arctic weather front.
"This is not a good start. Tried checking @ERCOT_ISO dashboard about grid conditions and it's down. Tried checking hourly resource outage data, that's down too," Jeremy Rogalski from K-HOU TV tweeted on Wednesday.
He later added that he had gotten in touch with a spokesperson for the Energy Reliability Council of Texas who'd told him that the grid operator was having issues from an upgrade made back in November.
Alarm is the appropriate reaction to such news after last year, the grid failed so spectacularly that it caused massive blackouts, with some people remaining without power for several days.
The Texas Freeze of last year, as it came to be known, also knocked out power plants and oil and gas wells, causing the largest-ever oil production decline in U.S. oil history.
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I don’t think this freeze is going to be as prolonged as the last one. Supposed to be above freezing in San Antonio tomorrow and back to normal temps early next week.
I read the power coop cut deals with all the Bitcoin miners (who moved there after China shut them down). So they are among the first to get booted off the juice.
Abbott must know that if there is a repeat of last year’s deadly shutdown FUBAR, his chance of re-election roll off the cliff.
National Weather Service upgrades to winter storm warning for North Texas..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4034714/posts
MSM will blame it on excessive reliance on conventional power plants.
So far (knock on wood), we’ve been fine here in Central Texas. The rain/winter mix/snow has moved through the area. Last year, it was that type of weather, mainly the snow, that helped bring down Texas’ grid. What remains, as mentioned earlier in this thread, are some very cold and windy weather tonight.
Big wind
and Big sun
when winter comes
can’t get it done!
I just checked the ERCOT APP and they have plenty of reserves at this time.
If he’s replaced by Allen West it would be the best thing to happen to this country in a generation.
Every Freeper in Texas should be turning both heat and AC to max.
The folks in charge of keeping the grid going are the same ones keeping the system status dashboard running.
Maybe Dominion got a contract to write software for the dashboard.
Captain Hyperbole: This is at least a million billion times as worse than we thought.
Old information. Dallas area now has a Wind Chill Advisory until 9am tomorrow (Friday).
I won’t be voting for Abbot , not because of the power outage last year , but because of his lying inaction on the border . I’m voting for Huffines .
Thanks
Just a question but Texas power is heading south and in our area an eighth of an inch of ice has ground everything to a halt. Power is out everywhere. No school, no flights, no work, no groceries. If a small amount of ice can paralyze large parts of the country then how can we possibly mobilize the nation for a war with Russia over Ukraine? How could the civilian sector support the effort?
If a large part of the country can’t function due to a relatively mild winter storm but Russia can, how on earth can the United States overcome Russia (or China for that matter)?
No worries guys and gals, windmills, solar and electric cars will work itself out( lefty thinking).
It’s all cause of climate change. Believe John Kerry.
I can’t speak for the civilian aspects, but a lot of mil stuff is tested to function to -60F. This was a result of combat in Germany and Korea. And I can tell you going into the environmental chamber when it’s at that -60F temp is a real chiller.
Is there any good reason to cause panic about a maybe event when there is nothing that can be done at this time?
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