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Water is going to take longer, up to "several days" here in Austin.
Tomlinson: Texas electric grid is an easy fix, if lawmakers will admit their error
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Texas-electric-grid-is-easy-to-fix-if-lawmakers-15961368.phpMost people know the lowest bidder does not always provide the most reliable product.
Making sure a vendor can actually deliver the product also seems like common sense.
ERCOT, the Texas electric grid manager, though, does neither of those things because Republican politicians who have controlled state regulations for two decades have failed to heed 13 years of dire warnings.
Instead, they believed free-market advocates who argued financial incentives would encourage responsible planning.
The Texas Blackouts prove them wrong...
...Texas has the only American electricity grid with no rules for resiliency. Instead, the GOP majority argued that a system that pays higher prices when demand goes up would incentivize generators to make sure their systems work during extreme weather.
Another polar vortex almost exactly 10 years ago triggered blackouts. Natural gas lines froze, coal piles froze like piles of ice. Wind turbine blades glazed over because operators had skimped on the cold-weather package.
The Legislature appointed another investigative committee in 2012 but ignored the advice to set resiliency standards. Instead, lawmakers concluded Texas electricity customers should pay generators even higher prices. The state Public Utility Commission raised the maximum payment per megawatt hour from $4,500 to $9,000 in a market that normally pays $25. The generation companies that stayed online made a fortune last week, but 185 powerplants went offline and let two dozen people die.
The reforms we need, though, are simple. First, connect to the rest of the country to the national grid and accept federal regulation so we can import electricity when we run out.
Texas should also require generators to prove they are prepared for the weather events climate change will bring before they can offer their power to the wholesale market. That would reduce the risk of failure and force generators to weatherize.
Here's the 2009 TX House Select Committee report on Electric Generation Capaciity and Environmental Effects:
https://house.texas.gov/_media/pdf/c...al-Effects.pdf
Here'e the FERC report on outages from the 2011 winter storm: https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/f...-11-report.pdf
Water is going to take longer, up to "several days" here in Austin.
because everything you post is fake or made up BS. come to terms sheep
Yours stupid is never short and you never watch them yourself, derp.
TX is in the national news, BAD news about how badly TX Repugs run the state, eg, PUC/ERCOT
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02...-outages-ercot
Last edited by boutons_deux; 02-19-2021 at 11:00 AM.
good thread on ERCOT's press availability today
Yeah im gonna go ahead and turn off my heater now
Leave it to OD to waste a good opportunity to dunk on Cruz by going extreme cringe-level overboard.
OD not the smartest never have been. Kid was dead long before cruz took his trip, maybe if he died while cruz was in the aire youd have something
The next day, the family thought Cristian was sleeping, only to discover he was unresponsive. Yera said Cristian was found unresponsive around 2:30 p.m. His family called her and she went over to the house.
"We still did CPR until the fire department came and they took over and within a minute they told us it was too late. It was hard because I have kids myself," said Yera.
His aunt told ABC13 Cristian had no underlying conditions and they believe the cold was a contributing factor, even though they haven't learned the official cause of death.
Hundreds of people in SA are homeless because thier apartment building burned down, because there was no water.
Because Ted Cruz went to Cancun
Just ask Boutons. People died because of it. DIED.
do you think Cruz didn't know Capitalists had privatized, deregulated, built a ty, no-margin electrical power network where the priority was to enrich themselves by delivering the crappiest, under-invested, under-maintained product?
inhumane, predatory Capitalism kills, and kills at a distance so NEVER is held accountable
They are figuring out right now how to exploit the crisis they created to enrich themselves more
you lost you mind because you were proved wrong
Please, go ahead and complain about your enemies now.
I don't disagree with any of this I just think your meme sucked.
I thought Cruz was working from Cancun
Honest broker, everyone
... Incoming
Please, go ahead and complain about your enemies now.
Insurers tackle 'one of the largest claims events' in Texas history;
expecting billions in damage
The fallout of the winter weather that impacted the entire state this week likely caused billions in damage, ...
rivaling hurricanes and other severe weather events that have affected individual cities or regions.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sananton...ms-events.html
I said he could work from Cancun. Don't become Chumpy 2.0I thought Cruz was working from Cancun
Honestly broke, everyone.
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