https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2021/02/16/electricity-retailer-griddys-unusual-plea-to-texas-customers-leave-now-before-you-get-a-big-bill/
The power market in Texas has utterly failed. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149. > On Feb 16, 2021, at 9:15 PM, Peter Beckman <beck...@angryox.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Robert Jacobs wrote: > >> How about letting us Texans have more natural gas power plants or even >> let the gas be delivered to the plants we have so they can provide more >> power in an emergency. Did not help that 20% of our power is now wind >> which of course in an ice storm like we are having is shut off... Lots of >> issues and plenty of politics involved here.. > > Turns out that you Texans already get a majority of your power from > Natural Gas. > > So there's already a significant amount of power from natural gas already. > > Things I learned about the most-of-Texas Grid today: > > - Natural Gas plants provide MORE THAN HALF of their total electricity > generation in 2019 (WOW!) > - Texas has their own grid to avoid Federal regulation. > - Texas does have some links to other grids but they don't trigger federal > regulation for some reason. > - Texas is the largest energy-producing and energy-consuming state in > the nation. The industrial sector, including its refineries and > petrochemical plants, accounts for half of the energy consumed in the > state. > - 5 Gigawatts of coal-fired capacity has retired since 2016, and > supplies 20% of power currently. > - Wind power provided about 17% of their usage > - There are two nuclear plants in Texas, only providing 10% of power. > - One of those nuclear plants are offline due to weather-related issues. > > From the WashPost: "The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t > see the need to > prepare for cold weather" > https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/16/ercot-texas-electric-grid-failure/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Internet Guy > beck...@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------