This is the time of year when the Texas energy grid experiences legitimate stress. Not so during the wintertime when the state has multiple times the electricity generating capacity that it needs, if it is managed correctly.
There's something amazing about Texas' Republicans commitment to unregulated markets in traditionally regulated industries and climate change/heat waves creating a situation where "no market solution is available"
I am not going to conserve ****, I am going to crank my AC down to 74, leave it there - and force this PIECE OF **** GOVERNOR to stop taking 4.6m from energy companies to IGNORE the ****ing problem. FIX THE GOD DAMNED GRID !!! Oh, am also going to be installing solar with a power wall - so I will always have power..... DD
This reminds me of your brilliant take from the past on rainwater collection: "I don't believe in it, that rainwater is just going to evaporate and rain again later." If only there was some magical system where Texas could draw additional power from other areas of the country when needed.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bu...Updates-Texans-asked-to-conserve-17296238.php "11:13 a.m.: ERCOT officials said Monday morning they did not expect rolling blackouts to happen this afternoon, although the nonprofit grid operator's control room as sent out an official watch for emergency conditions. Rolling blackouts are a last resort for ERCOT, which must go through two other emergency phases before getting to that point. " Should be in the clear hopefully but doesn't paint a good picture going forward. Yesterday was 108 with some areas around Travis County getting as high as 110. I don't look forward to 100 consecutive days of 100+ degree weather as has occurred in recent memory in the past.
You can't b**** about people not getting vaxxed then. Well yes, but then how will Texas secede which I've been hearing about since 2008? Everyone knows JOE-BUMMER, the kenyan socialist I mean uh...demented AOC puppet is going to send everyone to FEMA pronoun camps if Texas shares the power grid with such liberal bastions as...Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Doesn't that mean that if this happens every year, they should be able to figure out a way to keep that from happening every year?
Figure out what? About how to stop the weather from becoming hot in the summertime? The grid has functioned fine to this point, at least as far as I can tell. Warnings of summertime heat and encouragements not to waste energy are responsible actions that do not cost anything to speak of. Even if the electricity does go out in a couple of places for a few hours at peak conditions once or twice during the summer, that does not warrant spending tens or hundreds of billions remaking the electric grid over.
No... figure out how to keep the grid operational without rolling blackouts during these yearly periods of stress. Do you have links to your hundreds of billions of dollars of cost estimate or did you pull that number out of your ass? In Florida they don't do rolling blackouts and, at least in St. Petersburg, don't have metered AC. We regularly have 100+ degree heat indexes.
Have there actually been rolling blackouts here in Texas this summer? I do not recall there being any.
They threaten or do them most every year AND every year ask people to cut back on their usage during times of stress.
