Yes, Texas’s Blackouts Are The Result Of Unreliable ‘Green’ Energy

Why are Texans freezing? There are many reasons, but this would not be happening if the state --- dominated by Republicans committed to a small government ideology -- had not severed its links to the national electrical grid for the sake of avoiding regulation. That regulation, among other things, would have required utilities to be better prepared. But Texas, the country's top energy producer, was not only caught unprepared for a harsh cold snap, but by choice, is the only state in the contiguous US essentially unable to borrow energy from other states.

If you want to see the meaning of fanaticism, there's Rick Perry, the former governor who also served as energy secretary under Trump, quoted as saying ("partly rhetorically") that the suffering is worth it, "Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/18/opinions/texas-winter-disaster-ghitis/index.html
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El Paso did not suffer a blackout. When the frigid spell of 2011 hit Texas, they did not want their people to suffer again. So they winterized their system. They also are connected to the scary western grid. What happened to the rest of the state was due to privatized electricity, profit-taking, and compliant politicians.
 
Flash said:
Here is a good, objective description of the Texas system:
[h=1]Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid[/h]https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/even-power-disasters-are-bigger-in-texas-heres-why/
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Thanks, that was very informative. Best source of information I've read so far.

I think the Governor knows what to do now, and I'm sure we Texans will hold his feet in the fire- or ice water- until he gets the job done.

Most of the fixes are easy and don't cost much money.
 
Nordberg said:
El Paso did not suffer a blackout. When the frigid spell of 2011 hit Texas, they did not want their people to suffer again. So they winterized their system. They also are connected to the scary western grid. What happened to the rest of the state was due to privatized electricity, profit-taking, and compliant politicians.
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You are absolutely right! The power companies in the El Paso area are owned by a Holding Company outside of Texas. I used to work IT at Central and Southwest Services back in 1980.

Here is the official map of the ERCOT grid by County!

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Legion said:
Is that so?

Here's what you "forgot" to mention:

https://www.wunderground.com/calendar/us/tx/el-paso/KELP
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Still avoiding reality I see:

"Scrolling through Twitter that same day, Gomez found himself wishing he could do something to help when he saw pictures and videos of what so many fellow Texans were experiencing—bursting pipes, falling ceilings, flooding, and freezing homes. “TEXAS! Head west, far west,” he tweeted. “Our grid is up in El Paso, and we welcome anyone that needs a respite from this frigid chaos. Hotels, shelters, and hope.”

When the winter storms that paralyzed most of Texas first blew through El Paso on February 14, only about 3,000 people in the city had a power outage in their homes, and more than 2,000 of those saw their power restored within just five minutes. No homes in this city of 682,000 residents spent days without power or heat—an experience common to millions throughout the rest of the state. Although this winter storm didn’t hit El Paso as severely as it did other parts of the state, the conditions were similar to those during a February 2011 storm that devastated the city. It’s thanks to the preparations that El Paso made in response to that disaster, as well as its operating on a different electric grid than the majority of Texas, that the city had a starkly different experience during the last awful week for the state."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/el-paso-electric-winter-storm-2021/
 
Legion said:
The reality is that El Paso only had 3 days of freezing temperatures, Mature Masturbator.



Get a grip on yourself.

https://www.wunderground.com/calendar/us/tx/el-paso/KELP
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The National Weather Service says three days had lows below freezing, two of them 14 degrees.

It had another two days with 32 degree lows.

https://w2.weather.gov/climate/getclimate.php?wfo=epz



EDIT: I see that you changed that post, and added a link...that's cool, because you were wrong before that.
 
Legion said:
The reality is that El Paso only had 3 days of freezing temperatures, Mature Masturbator.



Get a grip on yourself.

https://www.wunderground.com/calendar/us/tx/el-paso/KELP
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The point is the power failures resulted from failure to winterize both the ten percent of the grid powered by wind and the ninety percent powered by fossil fuels.
Get a grip. The entire Right, which can't help itself from making politics out of everything, needs to get a grip.
 
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The point is the power failures resulted from failure to winterize both the ten percent of the grid powered by wind and the ninety percent powered by fossil fuels.
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No, the point is that El Paso suffered almost no ill effects from the unprecedented weather event that gripped most of the nation.
 
Legion said:
That's right.

So it's disingenuous to pretend that El Paso was hit as hard as central and northern Texas was, and dishonest to politicize the fact that only 3,00 customers lost power there as if they faced the same conditions that others faced.

Here's Dallas:

https://www.wunderground.com/calendar/us/tx/dallas/KDAL
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You said two days of freezing when it was five days lows of 32 and below...including two 14's in a row....I thought I was going to stomp on you for fake news but you fixed it before I could do it.

Well Done
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Do you have a link indicating that this is what happened?

My instincts tell me that coal plants generally dont run in the winter, and that operators had shut them down for the winter and were not interested in opening them up, perhaps dont have and cant get the staff back in winter.
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They don't shut down. There's no reason to. All coolant plumbing is inside the building with the boiler.
 
Flash said:
There was moisture in the gas which messes with the pumps and diesel engines.
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Very little moisture in natural gas lines. It causes corrosion. Diesel engines don't have a problem with low temperatures. They run just fine. Even the diesel oil can be treated to remain usable down to -25 deg F.
Flash said:
Not unspecified at all.

"According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the shutdown of the nuclear reactor was caused by a disruption in a feedwater pump to the reactor, and that caused the plant to trip automatically and shut down early Monday."

On February 15, 2021 during a major power outage that impacted much of the state of Texas, an automatic reactor trip shut South Texas Nuclear Generation Station Unit 1 due to low steam generator levels. According to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission report, the low steam generator levels were due to loss of Feedwater pumps 11 and 13.
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A failed pump. Unspecified.
Flash said:
ERCOT that runs the system. Actually, it is more like 7%.
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So they threw out some random number and you believed it...gotit.
Flash said:
They are not expected to run in freezing weather. They are not required to be winterized as done in some states (MN).
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Wind generators are not winterized. Ice buildup on the blades renders the machine unusable.
 
Sailor said:
They do not use natural gas for heat (boilers) generally in TX trapper. They use heat pumps. And I highly doubt portable electric heaters are a staple in TX. No demand normally.
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People in Texas heat their homes with propane, natural gas, electricity, etc. These fuels also drive heat pump systems as well as auxiliary heating in furnaces. All heat pump systems have auxiliary heating. It's required by the code.

The problem is some homes in Texas are heated by electricity, which is currently unavailable in many areas due to ice storm damage to power lines.
 
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