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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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 <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/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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