1st poster is correct about windmills and solar stopping. but also read that the electricity demand market prohibitted them from brining gas and coal online. This was a manmade disaster.
Gov Cuck refused to bring gas and coal plants online. The Feds (Biden) refused to let them do it when he should have just said fuck off and did it for the good of the people. Texas has also asked Beijing Biden to declare a state of emergency for 177 counties and send Federal help..Biden REFUSED.
In a nutshell...
Our grid here is managed by ERCOT, they are actually a private entity who manages the electrical grid for Texas. ERCOT has to follow Federal EPA guidelines however, so whatever Texas wants them to do is run through those filters.
Texas saw that the wind turbines were going to go off line, they cannot operate in icy weather, high wind or low wind conditions as we knew were coming. So since 'somehow' chinese wind turbines were allowed to become some 25% of our grid capacity we knew 25% of our energy was fixing to disappear. So the Governor signed off on ramping production via idle gas plants and also running already operating plants at higher loadings, all that causes emissions which technically exceed permitted levels.
So the Feds refused to allow us to run at those levels, even tho we explained it was life or death and had agreed to pay whatever fines they wished us to pay....
Ok, when the wind farms dropped off we had to start some rolling blackouts, but with so much capacity off line and a ceiling on what we were allowed to produce in emergency, we saw other plants dropping off because of a domino effect whereby a broken water pump here or a busted gas line there caused other facilities to fail, so we had to stop the rolling part and just hold on. In 'some' cases facilities where cities had political control of maintenance funds proper maintenances were not done, winterizing not done because corrupt sanctuary city governments did not maintain water lines and gas lines, led to supply shortages.
Bottom line is two main culprits; the Feds refused our request to bring power online and the wind turbine failures.
NEVER allow wind to be a component of your power grid.
There are other factors but mainly those two were enough. I've run power plants, gas plants, during hurricanes, we'd run ropes as safety lines and you live there for a week or two until it passes as needed, or until the winds tore you up and you had to shut down. We staffed with two crews and ate and slept there, sometimes several times a year.
Winter storms never bothered us, but it has only been recently that wind turbines were allowed to become a big part of the grid. We simply don't have enough gas, coal and nuke power these days, too much wind , solar and unicorn pharts.
I do daresay, if POTUS were still sitting at the desk in the Oval Office Texas would have ramped up power production and we would not have had this mess.
Fun fact, jet aircraft pollute a thousand times more than power plants, but they are allowed to operate, why? One flight in John Kerry's private jet does more damage than any 25 power plants operating all year...
Most of us do not have natural gas heating. Our winters are usually mild and short with a few cold snaps mixed in and normally some warm reprieves as well. This winter has been much colder than usual. My water heater runs on gas, but everything else in my house is electric.
From my understanding our reliance on wind turbines was only part of the problem. Apparently, many power companies were told to winterize a bunch of stuff about a decade ago after there were some issues. They apparently didn't do it. This caused major issues as a lot of natural gaslines were busting and it affected power plants, too. So not only was our energy production cut down, but a lack of winterization caused even more power issues.
ERCOT was also a big thing which someone below explained that whole disaster better than I could.
So there really isn't just one thing to blame. I also found it odd that I personally know people that never lost power, and other people who didn't have power for days. We were lucky and just had to deal with rolling blackouts, so we had power about half the time. (45mins on/45minutes off). The whole way they did it was just a huge mess.
I have no idea. All I know is that they were told to winterize a bunch of stuff and they didn't do it which was a contributing factor to all of this. I'm guessing it's similar to why water pipes bust??? I'm not familiar with cold weather problems like this. All I know is that a bunch of people completely screwed this whole situation up. Ridiculous. I hope heads roll for this.
I'm just glad I follow Q and had a feeling some crap was going to go down, so I stocked up last month on bottled water and some canned/dried goods, and my husband insisted on buying a small generator. It wasn't big enough to run my whole house or anything, but I knew we could plug a heater into it or cook some food with it. I felt so much better knowing we were prepared. This has lit a fire under me to be even more prepared in the future.
Sounds to me like a fearless Lin Wood type will be suing the feds for all the damages caused here. If discovery reveals that someone on high wanted Texas to suffer, it could be enormous.
What’s to explain they demanded a 4 gigawatt increase to accommodate all the heaters coming online and the DOE instead CUT 33 gigawatts , they turned the power off plain and simple
My understanding is that the batteries that the windmills load can only hold so much power. So, once the batteries were dead, and all the windmills frozen, there was nothing to "refill" the batteries. Same with solar, the batteries can only hold so much power.
TX had plenty of power. But the fed restrictions on emissions forced them to limit the use of coal to compensate for the frozen turbines.
And for those bitching about why we didnt winterize the system: that process is expensive AND it reduces overall efficiency. Since TX never gets snowstorms like that, it made sense not to winterize.
The point here is that solar is great but not 100% reliable in extended sunless weather. Wind power seems great but kills millions of bird and is also not reliable in bad weather.
Also, Biden lifted the restriction Trump enacted on Chinas access to our grid. So thats another possible factor
I can't explain it to you, but I can say it's clearly been weaponized politically. It's probably manufactured at some level, but I'm not even sure who did it and at what level.
1st poster is correct about windmills and solar stopping. but also read that the electricity demand market prohibitted them from brining gas and coal online. This was a manmade disaster.
100% this. Here’s the order from the Department of Energy: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2021/02/f82/DOE%20202%28c%29%20Emergency%20Order%20-%20ERCOT%2002.14.2021.pdf Basically makes them throttle the energy output in order to stay inline with “environmental guidelines” or charge $1,500/MWh for going over what is allowed. At least that’s my understanding. But I believe that’s why we’re seeing these ridiculously high electric bills from some Texans.
$1.50/kwH? Good grief. Typical charge rate to customers is between $0.11-$0.60/kwH depending on where you are in the country.
Gov Cuck refused to bring gas and coal plants online. The Feds (Biden) refused to let them do it when he should have just said fuck off and did it for the good of the people. Texas has also asked Beijing Biden to declare a state of emergency for 177 counties and send Federal help..Biden REFUSED.
In a nutshell... Our grid here is managed by ERCOT, they are actually a private entity who manages the electrical grid for Texas. ERCOT has to follow Federal EPA guidelines however, so whatever Texas wants them to do is run through those filters.
Texas saw that the wind turbines were going to go off line, they cannot operate in icy weather, high wind or low wind conditions as we knew were coming. So since 'somehow' chinese wind turbines were allowed to become some 25% of our grid capacity we knew 25% of our energy was fixing to disappear. So the Governor signed off on ramping production via idle gas plants and also running already operating plants at higher loadings, all that causes emissions which technically exceed permitted levels.
So the Feds refused to allow us to run at those levels, even tho we explained it was life or death and had agreed to pay whatever fines they wished us to pay....
Ok, when the wind farms dropped off we had to start some rolling blackouts, but with so much capacity off line and a ceiling on what we were allowed to produce in emergency, we saw other plants dropping off because of a domino effect whereby a broken water pump here or a busted gas line there caused other facilities to fail, so we had to stop the rolling part and just hold on. In 'some' cases facilities where cities had political control of maintenance funds proper maintenances were not done, winterizing not done because corrupt sanctuary city governments did not maintain water lines and gas lines, led to supply shortages.
Bottom line is two main culprits; the Feds refused our request to bring power online and the wind turbine failures.
NEVER allow wind to be a component of your power grid.
There are other factors but mainly those two were enough. I've run power plants, gas plants, during hurricanes, we'd run ropes as safety lines and you live there for a week or two until it passes as needed, or until the winds tore you up and you had to shut down. We staffed with two crews and ate and slept there, sometimes several times a year.
Winter storms never bothered us, but it has only been recently that wind turbines were allowed to become a big part of the grid. We simply don't have enough gas, coal and nuke power these days, too much wind , solar and unicorn pharts.
I do daresay, if POTUS were still sitting at the desk in the Oval Office Texas would have ramped up power production and we would not have had this mess.
Fun fact, jet aircraft pollute a thousand times more than power plants, but they are allowed to operate, why? One flight in John Kerry's private jet does more damage than any 25 power plants operating all year...
https://files.catbox.moe/d00lrj.jpg
There is 0% i believe the jet fuel worse then 25 powerplants without a source. You sound retarded lmao
yeh, not sure I'm at 0%, but that 1 flight with pumpkin head Kerry doesn't seem remotely plausible
a shame too, because the rest of the typings seem to make sense but now corrupted by this Fun Fact
Probably carbon emissions. Sequestration is retarded but a real thing. You can't sequester airline co2
But could be other things like particulates.
Can we please stop calling them windmills? There is no mill attached. They are wind turbines.
Not a big deal except that when we make comments using windmills it makes people less likely to take us seriously and really consider the message.
Fair point. But it does help negate the claims of being so eco friendly.
How many wind turbines do you have? A study in Canada showed 5 bird and 12 bat deaths per year. https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/stem-in-context/how-do-wind-farms-affect-birds-and-bats
Texan here:
Most of us do not have natural gas heating. Our winters are usually mild and short with a few cold snaps mixed in and normally some warm reprieves as well. This winter has been much colder than usual. My water heater runs on gas, but everything else in my house is electric.
From my understanding our reliance on wind turbines was only part of the problem. Apparently, many power companies were told to winterize a bunch of stuff about a decade ago after there were some issues. They apparently didn't do it. This caused major issues as a lot of natural gaslines were busting and it affected power plants, too. So not only was our energy production cut down, but a lack of winterization caused even more power issues.
ERCOT was also a big thing which someone below explained that whole disaster better than I could.
So there really isn't just one thing to blame. I also found it odd that I personally know people that never lost power, and other people who didn't have power for days. We were lucky and just had to deal with rolling blackouts, so we had power about half the time. (45mins on/45minutes off). The whole way they did it was just a huge mess.
How does a gas line burst from cold weather? Is it the shrinkage of metal pipes?
I have no idea. All I know is that they were told to winterize a bunch of stuff and they didn't do it which was a contributing factor to all of this. I'm guessing it's similar to why water pipes bust??? I'm not familiar with cold weather problems like this. All I know is that a bunch of people completely screwed this whole situation up. Ridiculous. I hope heads roll for this.
I'm just glad I follow Q and had a feeling some crap was going to go down, so I stocked up last month on bottled water and some canned/dried goods, and my husband insisted on buying a small generator. It wasn't big enough to run my whole house or anything, but I knew we could plug a heater into it or cook some food with it. I felt so much better knowing we were prepared. This has lit a fire under me to be even more prepared in the future.
Sounds to me like a fearless Lin Wood type will be suing the feds for all the damages caused here. If discovery reveals that someone on high wanted Texas to suffer, it could be enormous.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/18/basic-math-shows-wind-energy-failures-contributed-to-texas-deadly-power-loss/
Power production after the storm dropped a bit amongst all energy forms, but wind dropped a whopping 7000 megawatt hours.
What’s to explain they demanded a 4 gigawatt increase to accommodate all the heaters coming online and the DOE instead CUT 33 gigawatts , they turned the power off plain and simple
My understanding is that the batteries that the windmills load can only hold so much power. So, once the batteries were dead, and all the windmills frozen, there was nothing to "refill" the batteries. Same with solar, the batteries can only hold so much power.
TX had plenty of power. But the fed restrictions on emissions forced them to limit the use of coal to compensate for the frozen turbines.
And for those bitching about why we didnt winterize the system: that process is expensive AND it reduces overall efficiency. Since TX never gets snowstorms like that, it made sense not to winterize.
The point here is that solar is great but not 100% reliable in extended sunless weather. Wind power seems great but kills millions of bird and is also not reliable in bad weather.
Also, Biden lifted the restriction Trump enacted on Chinas access to our grid. So thats another possible factor
Solar is irrelevant in this situation all they had to do was increase the power to offset it, instead they cut it
I recall energy storage being a huge issue for solar and wind, the banks of batteries needed would be huge. (might be getting better with technology).
Battery tech has stagnated. The remaining barriers are huge.
https://youtu.be/hLJw2pwjhUs
Here is a nice, succinct breakdown of the issue.
I can't explain it to you, but I can say it's clearly been weaponized politically. It's probably manufactured at some level, but I'm not even sure who did it and at what level.
DEW... not natural occurrence... False flag.... Direct Energy Weapon... deepstate and demonrats last card.