honestly...Lina is quickly closing the gap on ERCOT...and may pass them in the trust department by the time all of this is over
Rapier108 said:I'd trust ERCOT over Dora any day of the week.45-70Ag said:
If this goofy idiot knows something, just speak up. If not, go the hell away
You might want to call the water department and have them shut the water off going to the house to limit damage when the pipes thaw out.missyaggie said:
We just moved our parents into assisted living and were staying at their house cleaning and organizing. We headed back to Tennessee Saturday afternoon to beat the weather. We left heat on, cabinets with pipes open, and outside spigots wrapped.
If we had known that blackouts were planned, we would have shut off water completely and turned off water heater. No telling what damage might occur now, and we're too far away to do anything about it.
You could wrap the pipes in heat tape and use the generator to power the heat tape.Ozzy Osbourne said:
How does one prepare for this? A basic generator may run a space heater for a while, but it's not going to keep the pipes unfrozen. Not to mention, you'd need diesel fuel with a special additive to keep it from freezing.
My house doesn't have a wood burning stove as an alternate heat source. I have a gas fireplace, but I could foresee gas outages as a possible failure mode as well.
I'm having a hard time knowing what could be done to prepare for a similar scenario.
Nope.Shanked Punt said:And this is very much a failure of the free market.Zobel said:
Plants aren't normally down for maintenance in winter. Outages are in spring and fall.
The market is doing want people want / demand - cheap power, as cheap as possible on average. Side effect is infrequent events like this.
How much difference is there between diesel and heating oil? I've read that heating oil can generally remain good for up to about eight years.Kenneth_2003 said: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.
Nuclear fusion seems to be about 30 years out since the early 70s or before.lukesturr said:
I agree. Nuclear fission plants should be embraced. With nuclear fusion looming in the horizon we could potentially replace all fossil fuels, but for now current nuclear technology and natural gas are excellent sources of energy with the least possible environmental impact currently available. I just wish we could break the stigma nuclear has and approach the future of energy logically and with respect to geography.
We aren't on ERCOT.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.)
A niece of mine in central Texas had no electricity for a day and a half.outofstateaggie said:45-70Ag said:
Oncor is full of it. We've been down since Sunday and have people all around us getting power back that have been out much less time than we have. ALL I WANT IS AN HOUR OR TWO!!! *****!!!
But a good start to a Stephen King novel, don't you think?BenFiasco14 said:
2021 has been off to an awful start
Quote:
COLEMAN, TX -- Power outages have affected all of West Texas and one Texas city is saying enough. In a late-night press release, the City of Coleman condemned the decisions made by ERCOT. The City of Coleman said it has been completely without electricity for nearly two days.
According to officials, city crews spent all afternoon working with AEP repairing the substation and as the power company prepared to "flip the switch" to restore the power. Then, just as relief was to come to the city of 4,400 residents, ERCOT said no.
ERCOT, or the Electric Reliability Commission of Texas, governs what parts of the electrical grid can retrieve electricity.
When the blackouts first began, the city was told they would be placed on rolling blackouts and instead what ERCOT defines as a controlled blackout was put in place with no plan to restore power. A controlled blackout means there's no immediate hope electricity will be restored soon, not even temporarily.
Source: Coleman Says ERCOT Wants the Whole City to Freeze
In Abilene, similar thing with water supply happened. Details.fatherof4 said:
I live in Sherman. A problem we are having, havent seen it reported in other areas, is that the blackouts have knocked out our municipal water supply. Pump houses went down causing supply pipes to freeze. So no power and no water. Anyone have this happening?
Why did the water mains bust?sanangelo said:In Abilene, similar thing with water supply happened. Details.fatherof4 said:
I live in Sherman. A problem we are having, havent seen it reported in other areas, is that the blackouts have knocked out our municipal water supply. Pump houses went down causing supply pipes to freeze. So no power and no water. Anyone have this happening?
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In San Angelo, the problem was busted water mains as the temps approached 32 degrees outside,