My daughter’s power is out in Austin. She fled to an AirBnB in another city to try and get some work accomplished. Most aren’t so fortunate.
Climate change strikes again!
Wait until they start fining you for using a fireplace to keep warm like they now are doing in jolly England.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64261624
Wait! Already here....
$500 fine in SF for using a fireplace
Obviously we need more global warming.
We could use some of that global warming
Gee, you’d think that after last year Texas would have reopened some of those coal powered power plants.
Just another city utility that isn’t doing its job in a dim city. There is no excuse for tree limbs to be falling on power lines.
Gas range. EOM
Spent 35 years in the electric utility industry and went through many icing events. Ice storms are the worst. The effects in many cases are system wide. It’s nearly impossible to provide proper overhead line clearance in an urban or remote rural environment. In addition if the ice accumulation is significant enough the weight of the ice along can exceed the carrying capacity of the line or other fixtures.
Well they’re stupid enough to rely Alternative energy power when they have plenty of oil in the ground
More anti-Texas propaganda from AP.
Well Ken, Paul, how are the other states doing?
I bet they wish they only lost power to 0.01% of their population.
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A $60 Dyna Glo propane heater is all you need.
One would think they learned their lesson the last time.
People will survive but busted pipes will not. When it warms up and the pipes thaw, then the fun begins. People need to stay close to their property to monitor the thaw and watch for leaks to avoid disastrous flooding and damage. Know where your main water shut off is in the house.
Texans received several inches of global warming from this storm.
Well now we see inside a liberal mind, they are unable to do anything themselves but keep voting for those who talk a good game but are just as useless in an emergency.
Get used to it or...lose the windmills, solar panels and Austin.
I've just read a new book called "Shorting the Grid". It's been an eyeopener.
Congress passed laws in the '90s that destroyed the highly-reliable regulated vertical monopoly model of power delivery, and replaced it with something called Regional Transmission Organizations.
Now, RTOs own the grid network, and must buy power from independent generators according to a Byzantine set of "market rules". This scheme, rather than reducing cost to the consumer as claimed, has actually raised it.
The system is being gamed relentlessly, (remember Enron?)
The worst gamers are the solar & wind suppliers, (which BTW could not even exist in the mix were it not for the RTO system).
With the RTO system it seems that "renewables" get only a small fraction of their revenue from actually selling power to the grid. The rest is subsidies. And for all that, what power they DO supply is so unreliable that it is destabilizing the RTOs to the point where rolling blackouts are almost certain to occur this winter.
This matters not to the "green energy" oligarchs who have bought the Democrat party.
A very great man once said: Follow the money.
The generator can be your best friend. 😉
These cold weather power problems have been going on for a few years now. Hasn’t ERCOT implemented any fixes to this, yet?
I’m thinking a good business model for some capital flush investor would be portable fossil fuel based gas turbine generating stations that can be hooked into the grid anywhere they’re needed.
“coldest weather in decades” — how is that even possible?
“PowerOutage.us” will need to change is name to PowerOutagesR.US real soon the way things are going.