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How long were you an SAE before promoting to AS?
Messed up a document production. What now?
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I’ll give ERCOT free advice right here: adopt Federal energy generation and transmission standards, and then interconnect with neighboring grids!
Rising Star
Texas always wanted to go it alone.
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It's a pretty rare event for Texas to freeze over like it did. Not really worth spending tons of money for mitigation of a natural disaster that almost never happens. Future occurrences might be more common due to climate change but who knows 🤷♂️
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Love the "it's rare in Texas" people. Parts of the grid has suffered this 5 times since 2000, just not the whole state previously. But the state couldn't figure out that perhaps they should prepare. Idiot leadership.
Pretty rare event for a hurricane to hit NYC...until it happened twice within a couple of years - once disastrously so
Some of the biggest impacts were to car and train tunnels and power infrastructure from flooding / storm surge. When you drive into the tunnels now, you see these big huge doors that can close and presumably keep flood waters out. I believe they’ve done the same to the power infrastructure that led to lower Manhattan being blacked out for a week or so. And to the Subway.
How about morons like Ted Cruz and other Trumpublicans from Texas not rip on states like California for their blackouts and acknowledge their own issues with energy management? Less hypocrisy, more action.
Chief
I mean if they had storage arrays and buried transmission lines it would have helped, but most of the wind and solar projects simply weren’t designed to operate in this weather, whereas wind and solar in the Midwest have no issue as they do take into account more extreme weather & temperature.
Solar and wind was operating exactly at the capacity it should be. Solar was +1GW for peak expectations and Wind was -1.5. The real issue is that all the gas and coal generation froze and that production was -30GW of expected output and demand skyrocketed, which destroyed the grid
D2 - you fail to understand that public service isn’t about what makes the most business sense and profitability. It’s about protecting your citizens and making sure they have their basic needs.
You make the numbers work. Short term yeah it might not make sense financially, but that’s shortsighted. Long term the numbers work out, this isn’t a once in a generation event. This will be more common in the future. A good politician makes the numbers work by getting tax breaks and incentives to make public works projects happen no matter how significant they may be
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Bingo
My understanding is that an event similar to this happened in 2011 and they commissioned a report to figure out what happened. Within the report they had a list of failures (ng lines freezing, trips not being initiated, etc.) and proposed remedies. A lot of the failures that were seeing now are similar to those of 2011.
2011 is shouldn’t even be in the conversation, this is so much worse. The only reason why it is is, to my knowledge, because it’s the first time major rolling blackouts happened.
It will be us!!!
McK probably already advised
...and you can see the result?