Yep that is the deal most homes are either heat pump or Natural Gas. The
Natural Gas hs had issues keeping up to causing heaters to run longer
using more electricity. Yes is gets hot in the summers max though on
average is 110 deg F if you cool your house to 75 then your only looking
at a 35 deg temperature deference. So since about 2 am Monday morning at
my house it has been bellow 10 deg F if you heat your house to 60 then
that is a 50+ deg temperature differential. Combine that with poorly
insulated homes most builders build here (code isn't near as strict as
places up north like NY or Wisconsin) .
I've been keeping my house around 55deg and already had 1/2 my plumping
freeze up even with the faucets dripping. Mainly because all the pipes
are in the attic without insulation. Luckily my hot water heaters are in
between the two furnaces so hopefully they won't freeze up before
Friday. Told the wife when we bought this house it was built poorly, but
she thought it looked pretty so guess what we did... Now she always
complains about the power and gas bills I just bite my lip most times.
On 2/15/2021 8:37 PM, Mark Radabaugh 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
<mailto: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.
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