The plants that are offline are mostly gas and coal fired. It's talked about on ERCOT.
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On 2/15/2021 6:43 PM, Matt Hoppes
wrote:
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.
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