I'm an exec in an energy services company. In a discussion among our leadership the other day, our ERCOT expert filled us in on a number of things that came out of last week...the following are related to water safety:
Most of Central and South Texas have open water treatment plants with a lot of exposed equipment. Within normal temps, this is not an issue, but now everything is frozen/broken.
There are 153 water district with limited or no water pressure - this is over 50% of the state
Many water treatment plants in the state were inexplicably not specified to be on "critical circuits" and they were included in the rolling blackouts
This is pure incompetence on numerous levels. There is a near-zero chance that NERC and/or FERC do not step in here.
I'm an exec in an energy services company. In a discussion among our leadership the other day, our ERCOT expert filled us in on a number of things that came out of last week...the following are related to water safety:
Most of Central and South Texas have open water treatment plants with a lot of exposed equipment. Within normal temps, this is not an issue, but now everything is frozen/broken.
There are 153 water district with limited or no water pressure - this is over 50% of the state
Many water treatment plants in the state were inexplicably not specified to be on "critical circuits" and they were included in the rolling blackouts
This is pure incompetence on numerous levels. There is a near-zero chance that NERC and/or FERC do not step in here.
It may be intentional.
Intentional in terms of sabotaging the grid? No. Perhaps intentional in terms of placating the Greens, which in turn has grid-sabotaging outcomes.
These people are stupid, not evil.