ERCOT order the rolling blackouts, but it’s the individual power generation companies, that do the blackouts, and those blackouts were mis-managed by those power generation companies. And that needs to be investigated by the Legislature.
In those first two days, Monday and Tuesday, my power was out for 16 hours, 6:30 hours, 6:45 hours, 2:30 hours, and then by 4pm on Tuesday Feb. 16th, “regular” rolling blackouts for 30-45 minutes.
Uninterrupted power returned by Wednesday at 11am.
The NG industry in Texas dropped the ball in not getting all of it’s players, that rely on electricity to operate, to get signed up on the TDUs, (like Oncor), on their “Critical Infrastructure” List, so that if and when rolling blackouts or other electrical outages are forced, that these players are not left with out power.
An example of such NG players are: NG power stations, Texas NG compressing stations, and Texas NG refiners. Many well heads are heated by electricity, instead of NG, because, for the environment, electricity heat is cleaner than NG. Which is another way to say, that to save the environment, we almost lost the Power Grid, and if that had happened, the disruption of many things could have caused the death of thousands...