So we are starting to hear more about how close we came to losing the entire grid which would have taken unknown weeks to repair. I was told today by someone supposedly in the loop that we came within minutes of total failure four times. Can you imagine the chaos/social unrest if the whole state went down that long? ERCOT is the whipping boy for the blackouts (and to some degree deservedly so) but it if this is true it was very close to being much worse. Anyone with inside info that can verify this?
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John, I have pondered this myself. Before I saw this post, I started another thread to better understand Ercot's responsibility for the problem.
The positive I see coming from this dire calamity is that perhaps the green energy folks will realize that their solutions will NOT solve our power needs in peak times.
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Originally posted by bboswell View PostWhat takes so long to bring back online?
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Originally posted by Burnadell View PostJohn, I have pondered this myself. Before I saw this post, I started another thread to better understand Ercot's responsibility for the problem.
The positive I see coming from this dire calamity is that perhaps the green energy folks will realize that their solutions will NOT solve our power needs in peak times.
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In my opinion this was nothing more than a miss-management of power / electricity.
I was without power for 35 hrs.
However Weds things started to stabilize, Power was random Weds morning, but I have have not had a single power outage since Weds @ 4:00 PM. So Weds & Thursday - we still had freezing temps across the state and more snow locally. What made Weds and Thursday any more stabile than Monday & Tuesday? To my knowledge solar and wind did not suddenly thaw out, more natural gas, coal plants didn't come on line in did they?
So - how else do you explain it other than - an unprepared epic failure miss management of power by ERCOT?
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Originally posted by LWC View PostThis is what I have been wondering. How does the whole system go down? Many separate ways of power generation and separate providers and transmission outputs. Doesn't make sense to me that it could all go down and if it did, take weeks or months to get back going.
dominoes.
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