Finally have power at our 25 unit apartment complex in Comanche. First time since the initial crash.
Aggies2009 said:
A lot of people including myself have had power for a bit. Are the rolling blackouts over?
Lol,at someone calling texas energy a free market. ****, amerikans dont even know what that word means anymore.BuddysBud said:
Utilities should be considered vital to nation security. The phony deregulation in Texas was just a way for someone to take a cut of the electricity market. Utilities have been regulated monopolies for a reason. They still are regulated monopolies, but now we get to pay a middleman for mailing/emailing a bill and cashing a check/accepting a bank transfer. These middlemen add no value but add an unnecessary expense. Of course, they do give the illusion that consumers have some sort of choice. We are reminded of this every 6-18 months when we get to muddle through conflicting intentionally confusing power plans to avoid paying an outrageous amount for electricity (thereby subsidizing those which cheap introductory plans).
A decade ago I read an article about Texas not keeping up with increasing demand from population growth and increasing use of electronics. The article suggested that keeping prices low because of the phony free market was partly to blame.
It seems like the possibility of running short of power has been known for a while but little was done to increase capacity as much as what has been needed. Didn't ERCOT threaten rolling blackouts during a heatwave last summer?
Perhaps Texas citizens, influenced by a slick marketing campaign, chose to have a fake free market rather than reliable power.
gonemaroon said:
http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html
Looks like we have 8000mw on day over day - I suspect this to be much healthier over the next 12 hours
gonemaroon said:
My team and I work ATC during big events. I slept two intervals of about 3 hours. I'm pretty beat up, but there hasn't been too many transactions going on in ERCOT since the event. Some wind farms frozen up that needed to buy back some shorts. Some generators that broke but once the prices went to the automatic cap of $9,000 all trading pretty much stopped.
Took a couple hours a day to talk to reporters / industry specific there's not that many folks that know much about electricity markets.
I wish I could have been posting more on here but just been too busy, but if anyone has any questions please ask I'll have a free 30 minutes this morning and will post some stuff on here. Let me post the supply demand graphs and the generators
Jbob04 said:
On the map with the individual plants, what are the numbers representing?
Jbob04 said:
On the map with the individual plants, what are the numbers representing?
Aggie_2463 said:Jbob04 said:
On the map with the individual plants, what are the numbers representing?
% load they are running. Lot of derated plants
ERCOT exec's ex-wife must live there.Earl_Rudder said:
That dark red county in the middle is Mason county, still at around 85% customer outage.
Jbob04 said:
That's what I thought. I was surprised to see that Oak Grove was running. They've been down and had heard they wouldn't be back up until next weekend.