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CPS customers raped for $Bs for the emergency loan CPS had to acquire to pay for natgas during URI.
TX grid designed to fail, to rip off customers.
A report a year or two ago, said TX electricity dereg cost TX customers $10Bs more than regulated.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ says TX pays $0.095/kwh, CPS bills me $0.145
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-26-2022 at 04:44 PM.
Austin failed to learn its lessons from 2021 and screwed up again.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02...power-outages/But critics and residents — many still raw from the statewide power outages in 2021 — had little room for forgiveness as this week’s ice storm proved an early test of Watson’s administration just weeks after he took office. In fact, many of the missteps this week suggest little was learned about emergency communications in the past two years. A city report from November 2021 reviewing that response then hammered Austin’s lack of planning, but particularly its history of lackluster communication skills during an emergency event.
Watson and Austin Energy officials waited more than 24 hours after people began losing power this week to hold the first press conference. And hours after they spoke Thursday, the electricity provider walked back its estimate that power would be restored by the end of the third day of outages, extending the sense of uncertainty. As just under 150,000 customers sat without power Thursday afternoon, Austin Energy said it could no longer promise when electricity would be fully restored.
“By having a black hole in communications, unfortunately, the city of Austin has set themselves up for a narrative that they can’t deliver on the services,” said Steven Pedigo, the director of the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ Urban Lab, which focuses on urban policy.
And so it was that Austin, a city of explosive growth and a hub of tech and crypto talent, could not manage to do the seemingly simplest of tasks: send text messages to tell residents when they’d get their power back or that they should prepare for days in the dark.
What the is that ?
Maybe reference to Musk and his big investments in Austin area?
And his primary residence is in Austin. But who knows what a primary residence is with that kind of wealth.
I guess you would have to look at his taxes.
My power was out from 7am Feb 1 to a few hours ago, that really sucked but my employer gave me disaster pay like in 21. Utter incompetence from Austin Energy leadership, but those workers got it done. The online and phone reporting was bull .
I go to Austin quite often and one big difference I have noticed is the number of power lines that are not maintained properly, they have trees all over them.
My friends live in North Austin close to Pflugerville and somewhat close to the soccer stadium....off of Braker down Schweringen (sp). They had very large trees in their backyard that abutted with a transforming station in back. The trees from their backyard were right in the power lines coming from the transforming station. I asked them to call the power company about cutting down their trees that were interfering with the lines. They did but the power company only got to half of them. We cut down the others ourselves. It was dangerous. But they avoided a huge mess as these were cut in the summer.
Now I know you guys got a load of ice on trees, but a load of ice on things like Pecan trees, Arizona Ash, hackberry (limbs always coming down) and then on the oaks that have limbs that go sideways with a huge surface area of leaves still on the trees in winter had to big problem you guys were way behind on. In SA along the bike trails up north a ton of tree branches came down but they are not next to power lines. SA tries to maintain the lines all year round. It leads to an uglier city but it is done for a reason. My chainsaw has been sharpened about three diff times now between Austin cutting and San Antonio. And I know there was a lot of misinformation about getting stuff back online and such. But weather as a problem for trees in the first place was pretty clear. I am not entirely clear what the other incompetence involved was.
Last edited by pgardn; 02-07-2023 at 07:14 PM.
It was mainly communication. We were told 12-24 hours, then all of a sudden a few days later it was most people should be back online by the 12th. The vendor who handled their map was abysmal, updates were not posted and no one knew what was going on. My neighborhood was a simple fix but we were told two days ago the remaining outages were in outlying areas and were very complicated. I live in 78757 in North Central Austin. It was just a show, and to me really showed how easily the infrastructure can crumble anywhere these days with the right pressures.
Yeah my friends had various people at their work who were without power for way too long as well.
I guess the city manager's response will be critically reviewed.
I heard something about an "act of God" excuse for the extended outages after the power lines got cleaned up.
Also it looks like you guys will have a lot of wood for fireplaces if you need it.
They trimmed the trees in our complex in the fall, didn't have any limbs down. Can't say the same for the subdivision across the way.
oozes contempt for ratepayers already burdened with $16B in extra charges from Uri, by the Texas Lege
I read that "some" are worried if ERCOT will make thru the summer with brown/black outs
Luminant's lawsuit against the PUC will proceed.
Texas lege is building a moat around large oil and gas companies. Putting the cost on ratepayers with no probable gain in reliability.
are oil and gas companies unable to build more plants, or just unwilling to?
https://twitter.com/MoseBuchele/stat...07819616354306The company Berkshire Hathaway is first to speak in support of Texas government financing new fleet of gas power plants. Company had introduced the idea last session saying it would build the plants...
U.S. Natural Gas Demand Exceeds Supply As LNG Exports Jump
- Strong LNG exports have helped boost U.S. gas demand in 2022.
- U.S. natural gas prices have dipped in recent months due to warmer-than-usual winter weather.
- The EIA expects 2.4% less U.S. natural gas consumption in 2023 than in 2022.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-...orts-Jump.html
btw
my CPS Energy price/KwH was down from 0.14 to 0.10 this month. WTF
Unregulated, unreliable TX electricity has one of the highest prices in USA.
You'll have to provide some backup. Looks like Texas is under the USA average. Not saying it shouldn't be cheaper as Texas is the highest producer of NG in the country.
avg is 0.11, TX was 0.14+ unti last month
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/
TX gas consumers compete with the international market that pays more FOB TX,
even after gas is LNG and shipped around the planet
We all know what happens when supply fails to meet demand, and
Fed can't do about supply, can only crush demand
Changes to Texas’ energy market could cost CPS Energy customers
Performance Credit Mechanism (PCM)
A PCM would require electricity providers to
pay additional money to generators, who would in turn promise to have enough power available when demand es
— as it does every summer and did in February 2021, after a massive winter storm led to energy shortages, days-long blackouts and hundreds of deaths.
called it untested, expensive and convoluted. The Public Utility Commission, which oversees ERCOT, unanimously approved the idea in January, but it’s unclear whether lawmakers will approve or direct the agency to tweak it in some way.
Energy researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, led by Michael Webber, have argued
there are far less costly ways to increase grid reliability,
as the Texas Legislature now requires electricity generators like CPS Energy to do.
https://sanantonioreport.org/changes...ergy-customers
San Antonio officials are losing sleep over a threat to CPS Energy finances. What to know
Texas Senate Bill 1110 would prevent utilities from transferring revenue to the cities that own them.
That would gut San Antonio's city budget.
a bill that would limit or bar municipally owned utilities such as San Antonio’s CPS Energy from providing revenue to the cities that own them.
it would gut the city’s credit rating and force steep cuts in services, possibly including police and fire protections, libraries and recreation.
How much money are we talking about?
A lot. CPS Energy is expected to hand over nearly $392 million to the city during this fiscal year.
That’s 26 percent of the city's $1.5 billion general fund,
which pays for police and fire protection, street repairs, sidewalks, libraries, senior centers, drainage projects and other services.
“would cause a catastrophic loss in revenue that would negatively impact services to our community, the city's bond credit ratings and capital programs.”
the city will have to cut services significantly and might have to raise taxes to make up for the lost revenue.
Assistant City Manager Jeff Coyle called the legislation "the biggest, potentially most damaging piece of legislation we've ever seen."
Like many things that affect San Antonio, it started in Austin.
By some accounts, Schwertner became interested in the issue after hearing about an Austin City Council member’s complaint
that the city’s publicly owned power provider, Austin Energy, could charge lower rates if it didn’t have to transfer money to the city budget.
But Schwertner’s bill wouldn’t apply only to Austin.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/cps-energy-explainer-17856435.php
bag Repugs greatest sadistic creativity is when they are screwing over blue cities.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-23-2023 at 07:32 PM.
big government conservatism in action, trashing big cities and local control.San Antonio officials are losing sleep over a threat to CPS Energy finances. What to know
Texas Senate Bill 1110 would prevent utilities from transferring revenue to the cities that own them.
That would gut San Antonio's city budget.
a bill that would limit or bar municipally owned utilities such as San Antonio’s CPS Energy from providing revenue to the cities that own them.
it would gut the city’s credit rating and force steep cuts in services, possibly including police and fire protections, libraries and recreation.
How much money are we talking about?
A lot. CPS Energy is expected to hand over nearly $392 million to the city during this fiscal year.
That’s 26 percent of the city's $1.5 billion general fund,
which pays for police and fire protection, street repairs, sidewalks, libraries, senior centers, drainage projects and other services.
“would cause a catastrophic loss in revenue that would negatively impact services to our community, the city's bond credit ratings and capital programs.”
the city will have to cut services significantly and might have to raise taxes to make up for the lost revenue.
Assistant City Manager Jeff Coyle called the legislation "the biggest, potentially most damaging piece of legislation we've ever seen."
Like many things that affect San Antonio, it started in Austin.
By some accounts, Schwertner became interested in the issue after hearing about an Austin City Council member’s complaint
that the city’s publicly owned power provider, Austin Energy, could charge lower rates if it didn’t have to transfer money to the city budget.
But Schwertner’s bill wouldn’t apply only to Austin.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/cps-energy-explainer-17856435.php
bag Repugs greatest sadistic creativity is when they are screwing over blue cities.
Screwing ratepayers and fellating oil and gas companies behind closed doors is thematic. Wonder what Texas is hiding this time.
gross
posting subs ute versions of bills as soon as they're filed could be easily done, but the lege prefers to keep us in the dark.
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