Also 22% of Texas’ power distribution is currently offline due to the wind turbines being iced up.
> On Feb 15, 2021, at 9:38 PM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote: > > A Air Conditioner or Heat Pump nominally provides about 3-5KW of cooling or > heating for every 1 KW it uses in electricity. Texas has a lot of heat > pumps that don’t work well or at all when temperatures get into the teens and > they switch to a straight electric resistance heat. Electric usage triples > (or worse) when the heat pump goes to resistance heat. That never happens > with Air Conditioning in the summer. > > Mark > >> On Feb 15, 2021, at 8:56 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I dont understand the rolling blackouts. its hot as balls in texas in the >> summer so youd figure peak demand with all the AC then is well over what it >> is in the winter. Whats stepping up the winter demand? are you guys mostly >> electric heat and hot water or something there? >> >> We maybe see some brownout here in peak summer, but winter its never an >> issue other than storm damage outages because we never learn to harden >> anything here >> >>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:07 PM Ron M. <ccie4...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> My home in Fort Stockton has been out for going on 8 hours now, and TNMP >>> says repair time is 5pm tomorrow. >>> >>> I'm in Austin, so won't be back out west until the weekend. At least I've >>> got someone looking after the house while I'm gone. >>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 5:39 PM Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> El Paso Electric which serves our area and Southern New Mexico is not part >>>> of the other Texas utilities experiencing rolling power outages. Back in >>>> 2011 we had power outages and water pipe damage. Both utilities took >>>> steps to prove systems with anti-freeze technology and all types of >>>> sensors. >>>> We installed several sensors and links for many of these projects years >>>> ago. >>>> As of 6:00pm today only 3,000 customers lost power for five minutes. >>>> Hope you guys are safe. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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