Some years ago the wind in West Texas just died on New Years Day (I think it was). It was really cold and power demand was high. All the wind machines (and there were lots) stopped producing and that was a Big Problem as Texas was pretty much stand-alone as far as ties into other power grids. So lots of people were without power on a day when that was unwelcome. Took a long time to spin up other sources, I don’t recall if there was even enough to compensate. I think after that the power companies might have added some ties to bring in power.
--R Sent from iPhone > On Feb 14, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
