They changed the title while I was posting the article. New title:
Power Grid Taxed, Rolling Blackouts Ordered
Imagine having 50 new nuclear plants that the stimulus dollars could have started building. We would have needed to ban lawsuits by the greenies.
We already had a couple hour blackout two nights ago when the storm went through. Just wait until Hussein finds out about this. He’ll make it policy and declare blackouts along with throwing the internet kill switch when ObamaCare finally gets slapped down.
It rolled by my house this morning, still on at the office.
Got me for about 15 minutes NW of Austin. Temp dropped 5 degrees in the house.
Had to sit on the trucks to listen to dispatches lol
How is this possible? They’re building windmills like crazy in Texas.
Just went through one here too.
I thought it might have been just me but I live on a ridge above a little town here in the Hill Country and looked down at the town and not a light anywhere.
Came back on in about 20 minutes. But I have a fireplace and butane stove so I was okay.
This is what the “Smart Grid” being developed under the auspices of NIST per Congress is intended to prevent. (Note that nobody owns the name “Smart Grid” so there are a LOT of so-called “Smart Grids” out there, somebody’s idea for marketing their gadgets, nearly all incapable of dealing with this.)
Of course, more generation would help too.
Do a lot of folks in TX heat with electricity?
I would have guessed it was largely nat gas.
Turd world banana republics do not have enough power generation to meet demand, not the United States. It is pathetic how, over the past 30 years, so many once-proud, can-do utilities have saluted the greenie religion and put in place demand control programs rather than build power plants.
Those left shivering or hungry during the outages wish to thank the environazis for blocking the construction of new power generating facilities that would mitigate these blackouts.
"The inability to construct new facilities, whether coal- or gas fired, hydro-powered or nuclear," said, John Doe, a member of the New Power Coalition, "has created this situation and, barring any unforeseen circumstances, it will only get worse in the future."
The first way, and the less intrusive, requires building more power generation plants. That ain't going to happen - the environmentalists, not-in-my-backyard, and the EPA will see to that.
The second way requires our society changes the demand cycle. This means changing how we go to work. Who says everyone has to work 9-to-5? In today's computerize age we don't.
But that will take a lot of effort so everyone will take the easier way out - selectively shut people off for short periods of time. Okay, but what about people who are in hospice or require 24/7 power to supply their home medical devices.
i wish I could say this is something new but it isn't. We have seen this every time it gets either extremely hot or extremely cold. Both of these meteorological conditions occur with extreme regularity.
Arlington, TX; down at 8:40a, up at 9:05a
They sure picked a hell of a day to do this. Have already had two blackouts this morning and it’s only 19 degrees here. When does it ever get 19 degrees in Houston? And this is the day they decide to do it.
Dont Texans brag about having their ‘own grid’ and how immune they are from such events?
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Happening here in Dallas every hour or so.
Could this have anything to do with Texas being overly dependent on wind turbines to generate electricity? In February 2008 rolling blackouts were narrowly averted in Texas when a weather front idled most of the states wind turbines. Wind turbines cannot adequately meet peak needs as enough winds may not be blowing when there is high demand.