It's an historic winter storm. Some issues expected.
Yep.
San Antonio has no snow plows. For good reason
it’s hitting a lot of other states too, but the problem is orders of magnitude worse here for some reason.
Horrible analogy, it hit -30-40 in Minnesota this week but their their gas plants didn’t go off line. People don’t freeze to death if you don’t plow the roadway or perish in their cars trying to warm up.
Last edited by Winehole23; 02-16-2021 at 11:35 PM.
So, this event wouldn't be historic for MN.
I think most of our fatalities during this event are vehicle accidents. I could be wrong.
Piedras Negras is doing alright, but Eagle Pass/Carrizo Springs is ed. Too bad we can’t buy any electricity from them.
The grid is in danger of going down for "a month".
I doubt that
In a state of more than 29 million people, public utilities need to have a good plan for stuff that happens one or twice per century.
ERCOT fouled up, not that you care (you just minimized it),probably because you have heat and hot water tonight and that's all that matters, right?
Money over lives. Every time.
Don't get cryptic, sadbert. You're not that interesting.
40% of Texas power capacity was online as of Tuesday AM
That's only cryptic if your literacy level is "Hop on Pop" and below.
Why would ERCOT misrepresent/exaggerate that?
I'm taking it up with all you Trump supporters.
How many times does the dude have to tell you he voted for Biden?
Don't do humor, sadbert. You're not funny either.
lol you didn't even vote.
Power was out here a total of 49.5 hours.
Ours came back on too, we're baking out at 60°F in this house, it feels great.
Damn!
Lesson not learned from 2011: failure to winterize.
The weakness of the system was well known nine years ago but was not fixed, because energy producers, regulators and politicians put energy company profits ahead of the lives and safety of Texans.
.The actions of the en ies in calling for and carrying out the rolling blackouts were largely effective and timely. However, the massive amount of generator failures that were experienced raises the question whether it would have been helpful to increase reserve levels going into the event. This action would have brought more units online earlier, might have prevented some of the freezing problems the generators experienced, and could have exposed operational problems in time to implement corrections before the units were needed to meet customer demand.
The February event underscores the need to have sufficient black start units available, particularly in the face of an anticipated severe weather event. In ERCOT’s case, for instance, nearly half of its black start units were either on scheduled outage at the time of the event or failed during the event itself, jeopardizing the utility’s ability to promptly restore the system had an uncontrolled, ERCOT-wide blackout occurred.
The majority of the problems experienced by the many generators that tripped, suffered derates, or failed to start during the event were attributable, either directly or indirectly, to the cold weather itself. For the Southwest as a whole, 67 percent of the generator failures (by MWh) were due directly to weather-related causes, including frozen sensing lines, frozen equipment, frozen water lines, frozen valves, blade icing, low temperature cutoff limits, and the like.
https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/f...2011Report.pdf
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