What lying leftists aren't telling you about the "Texas" power outages

Legion said:
From your source: "State power plants submit weatherization plans to both the Public Utility Commission, which oversees the power industry, and ERCOT. In a conference call Monday, Dan Woodfin, ERCOT’s senior director of system operations, said generators followed best practices for winterization, but the severity of the weather went “well beyond the design parameters of an extreme Texas winter.”
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CounterPoint:

The deep freeze and blackouts of 2011 were caused by almost the exact same reasons. Less than two weeks later, the Texas Legislature and Public Utility Commission held hearings, coming up with a bill on winterizing techniques for generators. But the only requirement of the bill, which was signed into law that June, was timing: Generators must file a weather preparation report with ERCOT by Dec. 1 that ERCOT sends to the PUC. There are no standards for generators to meet or any methods for sanctioning them. Even turning the report in on time has been a challenge: More than 30 generators filed theirs late this year. "These companies are ... not spending the money to make the necessary upgrades," said David Blackmon, a longtime energy industry analyst based in Mansfield. "I think the proof is we have 3 million Texans with no power, and that's an incredibly dangerous situation." Comptroller and former Republican state Sen. Glenn Hegar sponsored the winterization bill in 2011. He noted the need for more reform in a statement to the Star-Telegram. "The most immediate issue is getting power to the millions of Texans who have experienced prolonged outages that threaten their lives and property," he said. "However, once the grid is back to being fully operational again, we must address why, after 10 years have passed, are we in a worse position today than in 2011."
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https://www.govtech.com/em/safety/T...ng-to-Incredibly-Dangerous-Situation.html?AMP
 
Hawkeye10 said:
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From your earlier source:"State power plants submit weatherization plans to both the Public Utility Commission, which oversees the power industry, and ERCOT. In a conference call Monday, Dan Woodfin, ERCOT’s senior director of system operations, said generators followed best practices for winterization, but the severity of the weather went “well beyond the design parameters of an extreme Texas winter.”

Then there's this:

David Tuttle, a research associate with the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, said the issue comes up every decade or so, but cost is always a question. "All of us would love to say, we want super reliable [electricity]," Tuttle told WFAA. "It would be millions to really bulletproof the system for that. How much do we want to pay to go protect ourselves with insurance policies for rare events?"


https://weather.com/news/news/2021-02-16-why-so-many-power-outages-in-texas-winter-storm
 
So....Tucker just doubled down on his false claims that this is primarily a green energy problem, including saying the wind generates 20% of the states power, ignoring that the average in winter is 6%.

How Disappointing!
 
It is a terrible failure of the texas energy commission. It is also a demonstration of how the energy companies seized on their own failures to attack wind. Wind energy was cut back, but still was delivering. the rest of the grid was a big fat failure. There was a city shown that was on the Texas Arkansas border. The Arkansas city had clean streets and electricity. The Texas side was under snow and dark.
 
What's to tell? It got cold due to climate change and your outdated LNG technology fucked you.
Sorry. I'm toasty warm with my solar.
 
For the record: I have not been a R since 1983, I am a self proclaimed progressive and socialist....my main point in this thread is that I am hostile to poor quality government, and Texas turned up lame here.

tyvm
 
Legion said:
Should the authorities in Kansas start preparing their power grid for a future tidal wave?

:laugh:
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If it happens once they should get ready for the next time.

Texas refused because they did not want to spend the money. Also I need to hear who regulates the gas producers, who did not make sure that they were ready for the next time.

Surely Mexico wants to know as well.
 
Legion said:
It snowed in Orlando in 1977. Has Disney World invested in snowplows and wrapped their pipes in Arctic insulation in case it happens again?

Idiot.
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The grid needs to work 100% of the time.

Our ancestors could mostly manage.

We must as well.

The End.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The grid needs to work 100% of the time.

Our ancestors could mostly manage.

We must as well.

The End.
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You're an idiot.

Our "ancestors" didn't have centrally-distributed electricity before 1881.

After the 1906 earthquake, San Franciscans went without power and gas for weeks.

http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/power.html
 
Growing up in Rockford Il 60's-70's with all above ground lines our power almost never went out....CommonWealth Edison and the political leadership did what was required to make that happened.

I have no patience with excuses for the much lower quality of work of today.
 
Legion said:
You're an idiot.

Our "ancestors" didn't have centrally-distributed electricity before 1881.

After the 1906 earthquake, San Franciscans went without power and gas for weeks.

http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/power.html
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You need to stop with the insults if you want to get me.

I dont put up with that low quality shit.
 
Legion said:
PEMEX has plenty of natural gas.
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CounterPoint:

Mexico is highly dependent on US pipeline imports with around 67pc of domestic demand — mainly for electricity generation — covered by US pipeline imports of 5.52 Bcf/d in November, according to the latest information from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Mexico has 24 gas pipeline import points along its border with the US, 12 of which — including the largest capacity pipelines — are connected into Texas.
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https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/...n-state-gas-exports-update?backToResults=true


BTW the Mexicans are really pissed now!

Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) today ordered natural gas producers to refrain from sales outside the state through 21 February in an effort to alleviate unprecedented supply pressure caused by severe cold weather.

Abbott began requiring today that gas producers that had been shipping to buyers outside of Texas divert supplies to power generators inside the state instead.

"That will increase ability of gas-fired generators to increase power sent to grid," he said in a press conference this afternoon.
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