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How are TX Tuggers making out?

Green energy is the problem (or better said, a major factor contributing to the problem) if your energy grid depends heavily (significantly) on Green Energy and has no useful redundant (and operational) backup. It certainly appears that as Green Energy sources have come online, Texas power providers have been loathe to keep an adequate amount of backup sources ready to assume that portion of producing the power required for Texas should the Green Energy sources fail.

Green Energy is a wonderful idea - and it should be further pursued and improved - but clearly there are still limits to it.
Our power grid system - like our air traffic control system - is also in need of improvements and updates.

As much as I favor the free market, there are still a few instances where well regulated and well run monopoly can serve the public interest. The area of power production is definitely one of those areas because such utilities can develop and maintain excess capacities that may be needed in times of crisis that utilities operating in the free market cannot and remain cost competitive.
 
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So far I am aware of 5 of my friends, who when it is was 12F outside and were without power, are now dealing with the thaw and burst pipes and lot of water damage in their homes. Many of these are homes that were flooded and repaired because of Hurricane Harvey. It is getting old for some of these folks, when they can't control their environment, because of state run entities (Eg. ERCOT and the SJRA).
 
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Ask the Texan that made the rounds of new shows complaining that the issue is about green energy.
Look at it this way. Despite being a major oil and gas producer Texas produces more electricity from nuclear, wind and solar than most other states...

George
 
Look at it this way. Despite being a major oil and gas producer Texas produces more electricity from nuclear, wind and solar than most other states...

George
And most other states do not have the landmass or sunshine to do it. Comparing states like this makes no sense as it is not apples to apples. Maybe all of our windmills are operational today, I don't know, but I'm betting they were installed to withstand high heat and deathly cold. If you're going to do it, do it right. Texas got its big warning a decade ago with a serious cold snap. They didn't solve the problem, and now people dying from cold. In Texas, with all that energy production.
 
Hey, I wasn't criticizing other states. I was just stating a fact...
by comparing it to other states.

Right now, it doesn't seem to matter how much power TX produces if it can't keep some reserves to prevent massive loss of life in an emergency (Galveston has asked for refrigerator trucks; the irony is disturbing). Here in Indiana, it's been frigid for days but no problems with electricity. I don't care how much we produce, I care whether or not it makes it to my home.
 
COOL IT! (pun intended)
 
I was going to say something about...
but that would bring too much heat.
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The theory was that the lone-star state was too big to fail.
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I feel for those with busted water pipes that flood a house.
We've dealt with that. The damage is usually covered by insurance.
Allstate covered restoration and bought new carpeting, tile, and a vanity.
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It's not wind power because cold places like the Netherlands and Greenland run on wind during frigid conditions. The TX power operators neglected to invest in winterizing all TX power sources (traditional and wind). Epic Fail because the same happened in 2011 and 1989. They were told in 2011 to winterize but ignored.
 
I feel lucky but this is where we are. We have electricity for about 6 hours and then it goes out for 2. Our house is well insulated so it stays warm. Our stove is gas and I can light it with a match even if the electricity is out. We have plenty of food because of Covid. We subscribe to a bottle water service so we have plenty of drinking water.

We don’t have any running water. Fortunately we filled the bathtubs so we’re able to flush the toilets.

Sometimes I can make cell phone calls, sometimes I can text. I Finally downloaded a bunch of movies to my iPad from Prime, Netflix, & HBOMax. So I think we’ll make it.

I was almost completely caught off guard. on Wednesday I just happen to hear one of my kids teachers say in her zoom that that the temperature was going to drop to 8 degrees.
 
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Look at it this way. Despite being a major oil and gas producer Texas produces more electricity from nuclear, wind and solar than most other states...

George
Wind power only accounts for about 17% of Texas’ electric power supply so blame for the massive outages cannot be laid at the doorstep of that source.
 
I now have heat and power. My Daughter's kids are looking to go back to school on Monday (their school has been open since last August). Although my Son's restaurant is running low on food yesterday he provided hot food to those in a shelter. He says they will remain open until their food runs out or they get a new shipment...

George
 
Glad to hear Tuggers are well and power is being restored.

FWIW...El Paso has power because they made the investments to winterize after the 2011 big chill. The comment on wind is a red herring to evade the fact that leaders failed to invest in winterizing the system. They ignored the advice from experts in 2011. Texas has lower taxes and this likely resulted in systematically under-investing in infrastructure like this.



This will have economic costs to TX beyond the current crisis. Will likely see more state taxes or energy bills in the future to make up for these infrastructure deficits.

In addition, many corporations have been evaluating moving to TX for lower taxes. This will have a big chill on such decisions to move and may result in some corps reversing their decisions. Corporations cannot stop business for days with interruptions like this. UHauls now making UTurns.
 
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Be safe Tuggers in Texas. Praying all the snow will begun by Saturday morning.
 
Be safe Tuggers in Texas. Praying all the snow will begun by Saturday morning.
Keep your head down. Get supplies yourself. It looks like the snow/deep freeze is headed for the East Coast. Be safe.

Jim
 
Here's a graph that I found.
The green shows the amount of electricity generated by wind. On Feb 8 it was about 50% now nil.
Natural gas generation increased significantly, but the demand for electricity because of the extreme cold is so high it wasn't enough, thus blackouts occurred or were enforced.

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