[rockrr]

It all depends on the design of the system. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have gas storage sites strategically located within the grid. These sites are designed to maintain the required pressure of the system and inject additional gas into the grid as needed.

My understanding is that the designers of the system in use in Texas did not anticipate the need and consequently did not build in this redundancy.

[marktwain]

Here in Arizona, one of the people on the Corporation Commission (which regulates the power grid), insisted that the gas generators used to meet excess demand have storage facilities for three days worth of power generation, as I recall, on site, so they would be able to operate for three days if the pipelines were interrupted for some reason.

I profusely thanked him during our conversation, and said he was the type of far-thinking individual we needed on the commission.

I believe he was re-elected.