Posted on 12/10/2024 1:45:44 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
Texas has spent years tweaking its electric grid, but it’s still not fixed. How do we know this? ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, projects an 80% likelihood of rolling blackouts if a storm the magnitude of Winter Storm Uri hits the state this winter. Prior to Uri in February 2021, the probability of rolling blackouts was only 5%. A weaker storm—equivalent to 2022’s Winter Storm Elliott—has a 50% probability of triggering rolling blackouts. And there is no assurance that rolling blackouts can be executed, risking a widescale grid failure. So, by ERCOT’s own projections, the grid is more fragile than it was four years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The left uses this to put down Texas and Texas doesn’t fix it, it is a killer of Texans and embarrassing.
This is very Californian.
How is Texas of all places this screwed up? Is it a matter of growing too fast or stupidity in the bureaucracy?
The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia is the site of the most recent nuclear reactors built in the United States:
If you fix a problem you can’t milk it for more federal funds, Silly.
A lot of the solutions require Federal permits to implement.
Guess how interested the current administration is in issuing those permits.
There’s a lot of stuff queued up for when Trump gets back in office.
Abbott sounds like an absolute idiot, on this.
Sucks for Texans, and this is described exactly like Soviet Russia, as they state.
This is a great article.
Maybe they should pull the coal baseload plants out of mothballs and start them back up? Or if faster and cheaper switch the mothballed plants to gas?
Texas doesn’t have any oil wells, does it? If it did, maybe it could refine oil and use the natural gas byproduct to power generators. Maybe they could have private utilities without bureaucrats and have real people actually talk to each other.
I think one of the big problems in Texas is ignoring obvious upgrades and letting minimal maintenance and preparation keep the delivery systems weak and vulnerable at the times when they are most needed, it killed all those people 4 years ago.
Texas is California circa 1980. It is still business friendly and has huge rural power bases but the state government is second in size only to California and has all the waste and graft that comes with it. Energy, particularly wind and solar, are huge sources of crony corruption.
We have natural gas in the ground. No need to get nat gas from oil.
Rick Perry insisted on the bogus wind and solar power. Screw him.
“How is Texas of all places this screwed up? Is it a matter of growing too fast or stupidity in the bureaucracy?”
Both. The growth is ridiculous and out of control. Californians are literally flooding it. The complacency is silly
The legislature is very screwed up
Rinos give way to democrats
Democrats run San Antonio, Houston
If they don’t take away my gas fireplace and gas stove hand cranking coffee grinder I can let them try continue to pretend they’re a first world state.
You let taxpayers electricity go out for four straight days in single digit temps with precipitation and you’re not a first world state
The open border is enough bulls&&t alone
I hate to see it burned at a refinery though.
This is a full on propaganda piece. Doesn’t mention the real cause of the blackout was expanding wind and solar generation without making those suppliers guarantee a minimum supply, by paying for the capital cost of natural gas peaker plants to make up for their inherent unreliable power generation.
Of course they should but the gods of solar and wind will be mad.
Texas got in too deep with green bs. They are a perfect example of why green solutions do not work.
Now the will to stand firm and speak that truth is not there.
I don’t know why...but the slavish devotion to green lies is killing people.
When you look at complex solutions to fix simple problems you end up with costly ideas that fix nothing.
If you’re light bulb has burned out you don’t install solar farms or massive windmills to give you power at a significantly higher cost, you replace the bulb.
Trump has pledged to cut electricity rates by 50% during his first 18 months in office, but he will not be able to change anything in Texas because the ERCOT grid is not subject to federal oversight or regulation. Texas broke it. Texas needs to fix it. That is the job of the Texas Legislature.
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Ongoing history of operations in TX. Large fields of Wind
generation along with the same in the Gulf of Mexico. Also
has been different than other states as they were their own
controlled company, utility, etc. and the Feds had no control
over the state own operations. Texas was an independent as
to the rules/regs when they joined the USA.
Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States
Approved March 1, 1845.
Absolutely. Solved problems puts some people out of work.
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