Texas is facing the possibility of blackouts as power demand ramps up with the cold weather.
Apparently wind farms can't operate in icing conditions. Who knew? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-14/deep-freeze-sends-gas-soaring-to-600-over-the-long-u-s-weekend Forecast here is for 6-12 inches of snow over the next day or so. Temps have been in single digits. Nothing too out of the ordinary, but the past couple of weeks have been the first "real" winter weather we've had this winter so far. December/January were mostly just chilly with some rain. Allan Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > Blizzard is proceeding, temp is 7 outside with wind chill is -10, snow > blowing outside. Heat pump pretty much runs non stop. Over the last 30 > minutes the power has been going out off and on. No good. I may end up > having to haul in some firewood and firing up the fireplace/insert. It > would Most definitely cut down on the heat pump useable but by the > time you pay for firewood I don’t think it would be any cheaper. I > keep firewood around for use in the case of emergency. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
