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"When it comes to electricity, what happens in Texas stays in Texas," said Dan Cohan, associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University. "That has really come back to bite us."
LOL!Wait....we have deregulated electricity? Never heard of any company other than El Paso Electric.
Why would anyone enroll in a program that has some agency control your homes temperature?
Are you referring to weather or civil response or both?Are we moving in cycles?
Both now that I think about itAre you referring to weather or civil response or both?
Both now that I think about it
Nice! I'm scared shit less right now to have to go into work and the drive the streets tomorrow in my rig. Haven't received the dispatch time yet, holding on to the small hope we get the day off.Big shout out to this winter storm!! Thanks for the 4 day weekend. School’s already been cancelled for tomorrow and Friday.
Whiskey River take my mind…
I think tomorrow will be ok until about noon or 1:00. Not supposed to hit freezing until 6:00 or 7:00 am. It’s Friday that’s probably going to be more treacherous…once it’s been freezing for 24 hours. Who knows tho. Be safe out there man!!Nice! I'm scared shit less right now to have to go into work and the drive the streets tomorrow in my rig. Haven't received the dispatch time yet, holding on to the small hope we get the day off.
Yeah you are. ERCOT sucks. I was in El Paso in 2011 when we had our big freeze. I was in San Antonio in 2021 when most of Texas had its big freeze. In 2011 in El Paso I experienced true rolling blackouts - power would occasionally go off for 45 minutes to an hour then come back on. Last year they told us that we were going to have rolling blackouts - except the power went off and didn't come back on for days. Again, ERCOT sucks.I'm so glad El Paso is not on this damn grid.
ERCOT: set to 78 and shut major appliances down from 3 to 8
"April and May are referred to as “shoulder months” in the energy world. That’s the time of year when power plants go offline in order to conduct necessary maintenance and other repairs before the hot summer months.
ERCOT, however, has recently told multiple power generation companies to delay maintenance on their equipment so the grid could keep up with the hotter-than-usual temperatures recently, which in turn leads to elevated demand for power when Texans crank their air conditioners.
Friday’s power plant outages were unrelated to the recent maintenance delays, an ERCOT spokesperson said."