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    PUC/ERCOT still gambling with 7% headroom capacity, vs the industry standard 15%?

    deregulation/privatization is a total scam, anywhere.

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    maybe in the next Texas lege this will be a higher priority


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    Republican government in Texas is failing at basic stuff

    Texas’ main power grid struggled to keep up with the demand for electricity Monday, prompting the operator to ask Texans to conserve power until Friday.


    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said in a statement Monday that a significant number of unexpected power plant outages combined with expected record use of electricity due to hot weather has resulted in tight grid conditions. Approximately 12,000 megawatts of generation were offline Monday, or enough to power 2.4million homes on a hot summer day.


    ERCOT officials said the power plant outages were unexpected — and could not provide details as to what could be causing them.

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    the high was 98 degrees in Austin today -- way above normal but hardly unheard of for mid-June.

    Last edited by Winehole23; 06-14-2021 at 07:40 PM.

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    12MW of 86MW are offline.

    I hope our grid is secure against cyber attacks and more hot summer days.

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    ERCOT's social media goon


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    Junk filter thread, tbh.

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    the high was 98 degrees in Austin today -- way above normal but hardly unheard of for mid-June.

    It was horrible in SA as well.
    I saw people strewn along the bike paths in various shaded areas, not at the regular water stops.
    The humidity was the killer here, yesterday and today, combined with the temperature.
    The advantage of biking in the heat is through evaporative cooling if you wear the right stuff and keep watering yourself inside and outside. But with the humidity so high, its does not work nearly as well. Room temp shower felt great though (its probably a little colder than that, the ground has not heated the pipes extensively like Aug, and into Sept.)

    And now they will probably tell people its too hot to exercise and to stay inside with the intolerable temp. outside...?
    Yeah. Thats not cool. EMS friend said they had multiple heat exhaustion calls on the bike paths today, Monday? Glad I was not out.

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    Junk filter thread, tbh.
    And yet, you're posting in it, derp.

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    interesting idea


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    Along those lines, I was wondering if our "saving" electricity during the "winter" storm through having our power out almost all the time during peak usage will lower our bills.

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    Junk filter thread, tbh.
    ~700 people died last time we had "rolling blackouts"

    maybe it's time to connect to the national grid to protect lives and businesses.

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    ~700 people died last time we had "rolling blackouts"

    maybe it's time to connect to the national grid to protect lives and businesses.
    "Its not our fault if some people are too stupid to figure out how to stay alive when the power is cut."

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    "Its not our fault if some people are too stupid to figure out how to stay alive when the power is cut."
    who said that?

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    ERCOT five weeks ago


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    According to ERCOT, about 75% of that unavailable power comes from “thermal” generators, typically gas and coal plants and nuclear plants, being offline.
    https://www.kut.org/energy-environme...forced-outages

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    fingers crossed, glad I did all my laundry over the weekend

    In the media call, Lasher repeatedly said he did not have information “available” on which plants were offline and why. ERCOT often does not share some of that data, saying it could violate the compe ive secrets of power plant owners.


    Lasher also said he would not “speculate” on the question of whether market manipulation may be to blame. ERCOT’s independent market monitor is charged with investigating fraud on the grid.


    When supply and demand for electricity fall out of balance, the electric grid runs the risk of completely failing. In that scenario, hardware essential to the generation and transmission of electricity breaks down and the entire grid goes dark.


    ERCOT officials have said re-energizing the state after such a collapse could take weeks. That is one reason they resort to planned blackouts to restore balance on the grid, viewing it as preferable to what they often refer to as "catastrophic failure" of the grid.

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    yesterday

    Prof. Cohan called it.




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    "Do you want AC, or do you want AOC?"


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    snap poll:

    how many of y'all have your thermostats set at 78F or higher?

    (ours is currently at 80F)

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    My version of the red inclined friends on this board.
    "Fend for yourself dammit Winehole. Every man for himself. Dog eat dog world. The strongest survive."

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    snap poll:

    how many of y'all have your thermostats set at 78F or higher?

    (ours is currently at 80F)
    76 F
    My wife came home from riding a damn horse and turns it down.

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    Cold shower and the fan and she will sleep fine at close to 80F.
    I can sleep through about anything.

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    snap poll:

    how many of y'all have your thermostats set at 78F or higher?

    (ours is currently at 80F)
    thermostat is at 90 it's currently 88 in my place

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