Texas is unique in that they have their own grid. The only State that does. I was reading that when they had that deep freeze two years ago that the entire grid almost went down because they aren’t interconnected to outside (other States) sources of electricity. If they can’t bring it in, I don’t know how they can send electricity out?
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The grid went down because of the darn wind turbines that the libs here said we should use. I believe that issue has been handled.
One of the main reasons the system nearly crashed is because of improper preparation for excess needs. Under the old system, using coal plants, a certain amount of “extra” coal was required to be available during certain weather situations.
With the new natural gas plants, they do not store any “extra” natural gas onsite; it is pumped in as needed. Now, the plants themselves were listed as “critical” equipment, meaning no matter what these systems MUST STAY ON and HAVE POWER!
However, the natural gas lines and pumps were NOT in the system as “critical equipment”, so as the power fluctuated and shut down, the system started turning off NON-critical equipment to preserve electricity, including natural gas lines and pumps...which exacerbated the problem by shutting down natural gas-powered electric plants - OUCH!!
This has now been corrected.