There's 30 GW of thermal (not renewable) power off the grid right now with problems.
Need to put journalists and politicians on only renewables so they get an accurate feel for their reliability. Even if they are rich, mandate it somehow. Policy makers should not have different means--- needs to be the same so understand the impact of their policies.Quote:
I work at luminant. If the government would have subsidized us like wind and solar everybody would have power rn and we would be burning clean lignite coal to make sure nobody had to freeze. **** anybody who doesn't get that the renewables can never be trusted in times of crisis to provide a base load power.
So we need 25 flux capacitors to make up the difference?!? Great Scott!!!Zobel said:
There's 30 GW of thermal (not renewable) power off the grid right now with problems.
Its a shame Austin cant plan its way out of a wet paper bag. Your area is naturally beautiful. The problems are lib urban planning or the lack thereof. The good news is you likely made a $$ pile on your home assuming you sell at the right time.agmom95 said:
Yes, 620 has been great since COVID. If we had somewhere else to go, we'd sell right now. Have property northwest of Temple, but are only about 8 years from retirement and only plan on being there part time. Would love to go to CStat.
To answer the commie's question:Shanked Punt said:
Wonder if the big manufacturing plants, like GM are still operating today. Those businesses need to be shut down until the power situation gets better.
They dont have generators on site. They have entire power plants on site.PearlJammin said:
Most of those plants should have emergency generators of they're losing millions per minute.
Shanked Punt said:
Here is a good thread of what is going on. Wind may be an issue, but the delivery of natural gas is causing major problems.
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Jesse leads the Princeton ZERO Lab - the Zero carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory -- which conducts research to improve decision-making to accelerate rapid, affordable, and effective transitions to net-zero carbon energy systems. The ZERO Lab has three main areas of research
This is exactly right. And gonemaroon's posts have also been spot on during all of this.Sasappis said:I was told exactly the opposite by someone in the know. With deregulation in Texas, the producers are not required to build to a certain capacity and since there not much profit motivation to build new generators, they are not building the power plants. Certainly environmental regulations making coal plants hard to/if not prohibitively expensive to operate is a fed regulation having a negative impact. But apparently Texas deregulation is an issue as well.billydean05 said:
Over regulated to much government control no competition. Goals achieved US now third world country can't even keep the lights on if temperature dips below 20.
In this case he may not be wrong. Natural gas IS prioritized to residential consumers for heating over power generation. I read on another thread here when this storm was still a few days away that something similar happened in 2011, and NG suppliers were faced with a choice of obeying the rules and supplying residential customers or facing potential grid collapse.mazag08 said:Shanked Punt said:
Here is a good thread of what is going on. Wind may be an issue, but the delivery of natural gas is causing major problems.
Next time find an unbiased source and not a career academic who's entire life has been spent studying slanted science in an effort to force feed our country an agenda.Quote:
Jesse leads the Princeton ZERO Lab - the Zero carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory -- which conducts research to improve decision-making to accelerate rapid, affordable, and effective transitions to net-zero carbon energy systems. The ZERO Lab has three main areas of research
Big Bucks said:
Long-winded way of saying that the PUCT, or politicians that the PUCT answers to, could have demanded that ERCOT change their compensation structure to make sure dependable capacity was on the system but were either ignorant or too afraid of adding a few dollars to power bills to insure this didn't happen. And now all the chickens have come home to roost.
I'd like to know why we haven't had power since 2 a.m.hedge said:
Can somebody explain to me why the power comes on every hour for only three minutes then goes off. Yet other households in San Antonio have power 24/7
I'm getting about 15min out of every hour, just enough that I don't need to build a fire. Meanwhile, my MIL in Plano hasn't seen any power outage. Makes no sense to me.hedge said:
Can somebody explain to me why the power comes on every hour for only three minutes then goes off. Yet other households in San Antonio have power 24/7
Ag In Ok said:
How long is the recovery window?