Posted on 07/16/2024 6:32:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
More than a quarter million people in and around Houston remained without power as of Monday after Hurricane Beryl hit the city last week — a crisis that has sparked political pressure from both sides of the aisle and drawn new attention to Texas’s troubled grid.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is demanding answers from the state’s biggest power utility over what went wrong in the storm, which led to blackouts for nearly 3 million people across Southeast Texas for days. He has given CenterPoint until the end of the month to offer an explanation amid a broad lack of response from the utility.
“The communications component of CenterPoint is unacceptable,” Abbott told reporters on Sunday. “Corrections are coming, whether they like it or not.”
Democratic lawmakers have called for scrutiny of the utility as well. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), sent a letter to the Department of Justice on Friday asking for a federal investigation of CenterPoint, which she argued has left hundreds of thousands of Houstonians in the dark after several weather disasters this year.
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It always come back to their warmageddon cult fantasy. The truth is that during the warming periods, like our Modern Warm Periods, the weather patterns are more stable. That doesn't mean there's never bad weather during these centuries. It means that life in the Modern Warm Period is way better than life in the recent Little Ice Age.
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IMHO,
They have been sucking every last penny they can by charging as much as possible (the private firms selling the power), and investing as little as possible to keep it going.
Anytime the wind blows, there’s ice, it gets too cold or hot for an extended time, expect the Texas power grid to come to its knees.
And then there ERCOT. A government front which makes no one culpable and rations power when it finally does collapse anytime the grid is under any sort of stress.
I’ve been to Mexico ~16 times, actual Mexico, not the tourist places. Even they have more reliable power than Texas, and I’m not kidding. At times when in Dallas the power goes out, in one of the more poor Mexican states, Zacatecas, they still have reliable power, despite it being even hotter!
If only that 30 million acre offshore wind farm had been in place in the gulf.........
Centerpoint is a publicly traded corporation, though like all utility companies, it’s heavily regulated. To be fair, they do have to pay both sides: the Republicans in the State government and the Democrat run Harris county machine both get their pound of flesh.
That said, there’s no excuse for this mess, and heads need to roll, starting with the boy wonder CEO, recently arrived from PG&E of all places. Of all people, he should have known that trees falling over will take out transmission lines. What do you expect when you put accountants in charge of things?
If it ain’t “on record”, it doesn’t count/it never happened. 🤔
They need to harden the transmission grid against storms and stop the political blame game. And Houston rate payers need to face the facts that this is not going to be cheap and that solar panels don’t perform well during storms.
They need to harden the transmission grid against storms and stop the political blame game. And Houston rate payers need to face the facts that this is not going to be cheap and that solar panels don’t perform well during storms.
Florida gets more hurricanes, but DeSantis has a good system. We were evacuating for the last one and saw a whole field of out-of-state power trucks, ready to go as soon as the power started going out. We had power back in a day.
Last year Centerpoint Energy requested permission and funding from the Build Back Better budget to shore up the grid to withstand wind and flood damage. The Biden administration said NO.
The $37 million CEO of Centerpoint Energy, Jason Wells, is a DEI douchebag. So there’s that too. He managed to turn a two day restoration into a two week debacle.
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This crap is causing my daughter and family serious hardship due to her business still not having power. She’s ready to choke the life out of these people
I am so sorry to hear that
She said people are flipping out because if they can’t repair a cat 1 what about a far worse hurricane?
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I could not understand why the entire board was not fired after the 2021 freezer.....12 degrees for three straight days. They purposefully shut down the power grid. They all should still be hanging from the highest tree.
If Lee says anything — quickly find an anti-emetic.
An investigation is virtue signaling. The geography of the GulfCoast is the problem. Water table is 12’ down — no underground lines. The soil is gumbo for 100-200’. Buildings have to rest on concrete platforms dug 50-100’ down to withstand a moderate wind. No bedrock — they depend on the weight of the gumbo to stay erect. So, you cannot stabilize the hundreds of power poles in that muck. I lived there for a decade — it is like walking on firm jello.
>> Causes: Gov’t Gov’t Gov’t Gov’t
Nah. According to the article by the Hill (and they never lie):
“the storm took a hard right turn last Monday and ran up the coast before slamming its more powerful “dirty side” into Houston”
There’s yer problem! Beryl was a dirty hard-right MAGA-cane! Trump’s fault!
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