Hey boys when do you reckon we get power back ?
you may all go to hell and i will go to Texas
dubi said:redcrayon said:
I don't know the definition of a rolling blackout but my mom hasn't had power since 2am on Monday morning. 29 hours.
Where does your mom live? Surely the power of the Aggie Network could get her picked up and relocated to a place with heat!
dubi said:redcrayon said:
I don't know the definition of a rolling blackout but my mom hasn't had power since 2am on Monday morning. 29 hours.
Where does your mom live? Surely the power of the Aggie Network could get her picked up and relocated to a place with heat!
Except right now, when diesel in the tanks has gelled, and the filling stations are out of it, and no 9-1-1 to be found.schmellba99 said:
I'd go diesel over LP on a genset if you don't have a NG line to feed. May be a bit louder and more of a pain to fill, but you can at least go get diesel in a pinch, even if you have to drive some. Not so with LP.
Diesel also doesn't store well for extended periods of time. It stores better than gasoline, but not indefinitely.mosdefn14 said:Except right now, when diesel in the tanks has gelled, and the filling stations are out of it, and no 9-1-1 to be found.schmellba99 said:
I'd go diesel over LP on a genset if you don't have a NG line to feed. May be a bit louder and more of a pain to fill, but you can at least go get diesel in a pinch, even if you have to drive some. Not so with LP.
Atleast LP you can keep 3 20 pounders in your garage practically forever.
Maybe dual-fuel is the answer.
gonemaroon said:
Why the **** is Vistra's stock price up when their assets are frozen up not operating at all and prices are capping at $9,000?
Oh I know, once they cut the power to your home they are getting paid for $9,000 on their hedges and remaining solid fuel that is online.
Suddenly they went from being massively short and facing billions in losses to flat to long and printing money at the states expense.
schmellba99 said:Yep. STP had permits for 2 new reactors and was gearing up to get them under construction.TommyBrady said:
Cost (which could easily be handled) and the boogeyman. Nuclear power scares anybody that believes what they see on facebook. Its easy to scare people and make them not feel "safe".
Also the fact that the government is a bipolar trans man who will change their mood at the drop of a poll is prob the biggest issue overall
Then ***ishima happened. And the permits were immediately pulled. Because obviously ***isima Japan and Matagorda, TX are nearly identically geologically speaking and everybody knows the exact same thing is simply going to happen in Matagorda, right?
Less acronyms would be a GOOD THING...gonemaroon said:
The statement of 10's of billions of credit risk is a fact. The generators in particular GDF Suez lobbied for a $9,000 price cap. When I started in ERCOT it was $999 for reference. GDF Suez always manipulated the market and I sued them (PUCT granted them all sorts of legal rights to manipulate the market) and manipulate the futures exchange. PUCT allowed it and loved them manipulating price they sponsored it. GDF pushed for higher and higher prices and the other gens loved it got on board. I lost my lawsuit but FERC saw it and tasked their ass in PJM and MISO. GDF saw the risk of manipulating and sold all of their assets to guess who? Dynegy then Vistra - Vistra just bigger and bigger. Guess who has 4,000MW of plants in outage this week? Vistra.
Anyhow point being the gens wanted more volatility because they could handle it but the REPS couldn't. The fake manipulation bankrupted the REPS and forced them to sell to guess who? Vistra and NRG.
All the credit of frozen wind farms, REPS buying $7500 power. NRG and Vistra being stuck short. My friends and I thought Vistra was on the hook for a billion dollar upcoming loss. A black out zeros that loss out.
Lots of rambling but the credit risk was designed by the generators.
Why is the panhandle is normal shape? It is a statewide issue, I thought.Earl_Rudder said:Try the outage map instead: https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texasTravelAg2004 said:
Something is going on...just watching the price map and it's dropping quite a bit state-wide in the last 15 minutes or so.
Not sure if other sources are coming back online or demand is dropping, but prices are dropping.
All day yesterday until ~9AM this morning the entire panhandle was blue, (0% outage.)
Imagine a group of people pulling a weight with ropes all walking together. They're in sync. and it's moving along at a constant speed. Then someone throws some marbles onto the road they're walking on a few few of them fall down. Way over simplified I know but I think that's they best layman's analogy I can come up with.lost my stars said:gonemaroon said:
And the majority of the generation the grid operator tripped off line are older coal plants my assumption is that they are more sensitive to frequency degradations. So now it appears that NRG, CPS, LCRA and LS Power all lost coal plants in the middle of a gas emergency.
Can someone explain this to me? Why would you turn a power plant off if you're having trouble meeting the load?
The Panhandle is not on the ERCOT grid. They are on a different grid. That's why a high voltage line was built from DFW along the Red River counties to the panhandle, so that all that wind energy could be plugged into the Texas grid. What a boondogle that's turnout out to be.WestAustinAg said:Why is the panhandle is normal shape? It is a statewide issue, I thought.Earl_Rudder said:Try the outage map instead: https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texasTravelAg2004 said:
Something is going on...just watching the price map and it's dropping quite a bit state-wide in the last 15 minutes or so.
Not sure if other sources are coming back online or demand is dropping, but prices are dropping.
All day yesterday until ~9AM this morning the entire panhandle was blue, (0% outage.)
NomadicAggie said:
This is incorrect on so many levels. Just plain wrong. You are upset, think you know something, and are on here making accusations you know nothing about. I'd be careful.
TxFoundry said:
It's high time we bring back Reddy Kilowatt.
NomadicAggie said:
This is incorrect on so many levels. Just plain wrong. You are upset, think you know something, and are on here making accusations you know nothing about. I'd be careful.