Ice Age in Texas

[yuneeq]

�On average, renewable energy sources - mostly wind - account for about 20% of its energy supply .
On Tuesday, the state's principal energy supplier, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot), said the freezing conditions had led to :

30GW being taken offline from gas, coal and nuclear sources
a 16GW loss in capacity in wind and other renewable energy supplies�

In other words, 80% of the capacity resulted in 30GW worth of outages. If the 20% of wind capacity performed the same,it would�ve lost just 7.5GW, compared to the more than double it lost. That 8.5GW of extra capacity lost may have been the difference between outages and everything running normally (or at least a lot less outages).

[PlatinumGuy]

Liberals are out to destroy America

We made over 151,000 calls to senior citizens in Texas tonight. One of our vols talked to a man stranded at home w/out power in Killeen, hadn’t eaten in 2 days, got him a ride to a warming center and a hot meal. Help us reach more people, join us tomorrow: https://t.co/WOLn2HCrm1

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) February 18, 2021

[Euclid]

@mods please move this thread to the Politics board

[PlatinumGuy]

�On average, renewable energy sources - mostly wind - account for about 20% of its energy supply .
On Tuesday, the state's principal energy supplier, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot), said the freezing conditions had led to :

30GW being taken offline from gas, coal and nuclear sources
a 16GW loss in capacity in wind and other renewable energy supplies�

In other words, 80% of the capacity resulted in 30GW worth of outages. If the 20% of wind capacity performed the same,it would�ve lost just 7.5GW, compared to the more than double it lost. That 8.5GW of extra capacity lost may have been the difference between outages and everything running normally (or at least a lot less outages).

Texas is short at least 18.5 GW. 8.5 GW alone would not solve the problem. Regardless, wind power fundamentally can function just fine in this weather, the only problem is Texas didn�t prepare their turbines for it bc it�s a big investment for an incredibly rare event, and they assumed they�d have NG.

Wind is producing just as much as Texas planned for it to produce now, and there was nothing stopping them from weather proofing it to make it produce more now. 

We know this is hard. We continue to work as quickly and safely as possible to restore power. We gained some MWs overnight but are back to 14,000 MW of load shed; lost east DC-tie imports due to Midwest power emergency. We hope to reduce outages over the course of the day.

— ERCOT (@ERCOT_ISO) February 17, 2021

Weather, more generation outages last night bring load shed to 18,500 MW. For today…generators to return, renewable output to increase = increased customer restoration.

— ERCOT (@ERCOT_ISO) February 16, 2021

[PlatinumGuy]

No power for 2 days.
No water since yesterday.
Smelled gas inside and outside the house so called 9-1-1 — they never came.
Sat outside for three hours with three dogs until we finally reached center point emergency line.
Technicians come out — major gas leak

— Alex Stuckey 🐘 (@alexdstuckey) February 17, 2021

[avromie7]

We know this is hard. We continue to work as quickly and safely as possible to restore power. We gained some MWs overnight but are back to 14,000 MW of load shed; lost east DC-tie imports due to Midwest power emergency. We hope to reduce outages over the course of the day.

— ERCOT (@ERCOT_ISO) February 17, 2021

As you see here, they actually have access to the main grid, the problem is the main grid is also stretched to the max.

[aygart]

As you see here, they actually have access to the main grid, the problem is the main grid is also stretched to the max.

#facts

Of course there were missteps here, but anyone going for the quick political shot, whether a polititian or not, is a hack. There are SO MANY factors involved. Many items being mentioned by hacks on both sides have merit to them, but none are THE thing. The TX energy market is different than any other in the country. Their regulatory schemes have both advantages and disadvantages over others. Just like any other regualtory scheme devised by man. Until this event, the TX structure has outperformed any other in the country both in reliability and in cost. There are some shortcomings in the system being laid bare here and there will probably be changes to the market. SOme of the shortcomings were either known or foreseeable and some not.

[PlatinumGuy]

Two-and-a-half months before he left for Cancun amid brutal conditions in Texas, Cruz tweeted this: https://t.co/EPH2rVXpVM

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 18, 2021

He took police resources away from the ongoing disaster to escort him to his vacation getaway plane. #FledCruz https://t.co/9K3jHjeEcR

— Stefan (top 0.4% of Stefans) (@TheStefanSmith) February 18, 2021

Invalid Tweet ID
(ETA it�s fake)

this wasn't actually all that hard to figure out

Rafael Edward Cruz was #2 on the upgrade list for UA's flight 1020 from IAH->CUN

See for yourself: https://t.co/RDtanCyVJi

(unclear what the deal with Heidi's status is, though) pic.twitter.com/mH6M51XbiC

— Doug Landry (@dougblandry) February 18, 2021

Here’s the upgrade list for this afternoon’s flight from Cancun to Houston.

Looks like ⁦@tedcruz⁩ is on his way back, ⁦@danpfeiffer⁩. He’s just narrowly missing the upgrade list

That’s assuming that “cru, r” is him. And I do. pic.twitter.com/CqfKa5rJfG

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 18, 2021

Think he cleared?

[Lurker]

@mods please move this thread to the Politics board

Please?

[Yehuda57]

#facts

Of course there were missteps here, but anyone going for the quick political shot, whether a polititian or not, is a hack. There are SO MANY factors involved. Many items being mentioned by hacks on both sides have merit to them, but none are THE thing. The TX energy market is different than any other in the country. Their regulatory schemes have both advantages and disadvantages over others. Just like any other regualtory scheme devised by man. Until this event, the TX structure has outperformed any other in the country both in reliability and in cost. There are some shortcomings in the system being laid bare here and there will probably be changes to the market. SOme of the shortcomings were either known or foreseeable and some not.

Please don't bring reason to a flame war

[aygart]

Please don't bring reason to a flame war

Those angry Republicans

[AsherO]

What's fake?

this wasn't actually all that hard to figure out

Rafael Edward Cruz was #2 on the upgrade list for UA's flight 1020 from IAH->CUN

See for yourself: https://t.co/RDtanCyVJi

(unclear what the deal with Heidi's status is, though) pic.twitter.com/mH6M51XbiC

— Doug Landry (@dougblandry) February 18, 2021

Here’s the upgrade list for this afternoon’s flight from Cancun to Houston.

Looks like ⁦@tedcruz⁩ is on his way back, ⁦@danpfeiffer⁩. He’s just narrowly missing the upgrade list

That’s assuming that “cru, r” is him. And I do. pic.twitter.com/CqfKa5rJfG

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 18, 2021

Think he cleared?

Why would he do a quick turn at CUN? Is he mileage running? Escorting a relative? Running drugs? Sudden change of heart?

What happened?

[Euclid]

Why would he do a quick turn at CUN? Is he mileage running? Escorting a relative? Running drugs? Sudden change of heart?

What happened?

Please?

Ahem

[Yehuda57]

Think he cleared?

Definitely. This flight was clearly a plan B

[PlatinumGuy]

Why would he do a quick turn at CUN? Is he mileage running? Escorting a relative? Running drugs? Sudden change of heart?

What happened?

He deserted to Cancun and decided to come back when he was caught and shamed for it (TVs crews are already waiting at IAH). He's already at ~44% approval vs 45% approval.

Definitely. This flight was clearly a plan B

Lol.

[aygart]

"who cares about the people in TX-I need to attack Ted Cruz"

[yuneeq]

Ok back to regular programming, are things getting better yet? How long will it take to get back to normal?

[PlatinumGuy]

"who cares about the people in TX-I need to attack Ted Cruz"

Definitely sounds like what Beto Obourke is doing now...

Ok back to regular programming, are things getting better yet? How long will it take to get back to normal?

UPDATE: About 1,600,000 homes have had power restored today.

Current power generation is restoring an additional 200,000 homes every hour.

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) February 18, 2021

[PlatinumGuy]

Cruz’s kids are ten and older, unclear why they needed to travel with more than one adult. And if they do, how are they managing the trip back? The whole thing makes no sense.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 18, 2021

Cruz’s story appears to be falling apart. https://t.co/LC31F6VbyB

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 18, 2021

[PlatinumGuy]

Oh my. @American_Bridge has texts from Heidi Cruz planning the Cancun trip.

The group chats are not safe, Lovelies! pic.twitter.com/IqLYU2np0c

— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) February 18, 2021