TVA took 200,000 customers offline when temps were below zero: WHY?
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ONE POINT SIX TRILLION DOLLARS spent on EVERYTHING except powergrid infrastructure, and also not one dollar for USA border control.
Socialists want to destroy USA
This is planned.
States with independant powergrids like Texas were molested by obscene Biden policies last winter.
Disgusting Democrats
Democrats cut power to White Suburb zip codes and avoid ever cutting power to large democrat cities in these "rolling blackouts".
Welfare electricity never must stop, no matter what hourly spot price for electricity
I think it was deliberate, planned and executed by the Deep State.
This. Overloading the local systems can overload the bigger grid, like a PJM (Pennsy-Jersey-Maryland). And if the bigger grid crashes, it would take a LOT longer to bring the system back up. So they limit the load on the local grids to protect the bigger one.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/power-grid-operator-pjm-asks-residents-to-conserve-energy/
https://www.epa.gov/green-power-markets/us-electricity-grid-markets
TVA sent out emails to local power companies in their network 'asking them to participate' in an ELECTIVE rolling blackout. There were no downed transmission lines, blown transformers...nothing. Also the State of TN as of TODAY 1-4-23 has many office buildings that suffered catastrophic broken pipes and all kinds of damages! There is a huge cost to the taxpayers for these kinds of ELECTIVE aka VOLUNTARY decisions! The State of TN Legislators need to send TVA a giant bill for damages! This was Willful Sabotage of a working operational power grid system and State of TN office buildings: properties were intentionally damaged by TVA through their malicious conduct. This was no accident or act of God. Do you want to pay higher tax bills so that the highest paid employee in the entire federal government doesn't have to pay for damages caused his company's actions? I don't think so. What if your family member needed oxygen and the power was cut and they died? It's unacceptable to do what TVA did without cause or justification. It was a criminal act. There should be a full investigation.
Every nation has MORE REGULATION on power redistribution for load balancing and payments than USA.
The government is indeed at fault.
Its retarded that the power was deliberately turned off for 20 minutes for 25% of all Americans yesterday.
That is classic SOCIALIST SHIT, when power is cut.
The USA REFUSES to order EMP hardened side spare equipment.
One single north korean EMP weapon can take out 3 weeks of electricity from USA in CURRENT SETUP
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/infrastructure-sabotage-hackers-emp/
TL/DR: The gov is supposed to mandate minimum infrastructure rules for critical utilities, like all nations do.
FTA: In his statement, McGowen said the rolling blackouts were the result of “an extreme set of circumstances that were collectively unforeseen by any of the power suppliers or local power companies in our considerable preparation for this arctic blast.”
Them saying it doesn't mean it's true.
This isn't the first time we've had bad winter weather, but this is the first time we've had what appears to be a coordinated effort to restrict electricity usage. In other words, I don't think these rolling blackouts in various areas are all due to the weather.
This right here is what will screw us in the coming years. The next Carrington level event is already overdue.
I agree 100%! And I plan on submitting FOIA requests for all their communications going back 90 days! This was a coordinated and regional - multi-state effort to screw over customers.
Helps with WEF's goal to kill 90%-95% of the earth's population.
My husband built a wood stove/ fireplace/ indoor grill a few years back. I'm grateful he did.
MLG&W is beyond corrupt and TVA and MLG&W do not get along. We will probably never know the full story
Yesterday they were saying that the power companies are going to have to do rolling blackouts because of the "cold weather"… Total and absolute bullshit. We've had cold snaps that lasted for weeks, and never did the power company's say anything about "rolling blackouts". Retards better wake up and start questioning this.
Good point.
I don't think it's race thing. It's a power thing. Because they did it because they could, not because it was necessary.
I'm in Davidson County on NES. TVA made a request and NES accepted that request: it was NOT due to demand or supply issues. It was VOLUNTARY. But you or me and any of thousand other customers fall behind on paying service bill, and our service is pulled. My point there are standards which exist - the standards for disconnecting hundreds of thousands of customers in Good Standing was an illegal Act and possibly a Criminal.act. "Rules for Thee but not for me" is the issues.
Unless you are in the very most southern counties of TN, no one should be using heat pumps - they're ineffective and not up to the task.
There can be a multitude of reasons why demand cannot be met. During storms facilities can go down too, any number of possible failures affect their ability to run.
If you run gas plants you need gas and water, if water isn't available you can't run. If a switch fails because it's frozen you can't get your power out, if gas supplies are poor you can't run.
If demand exceeds your spinning capacity you need to cut back, rolling blackouts can prevent total collapses so they will do that. Most places have plans in place, heavy industry is supposed to cut back first and then they'll roll blackouts here and there. That way no one is without power very long.
Sometimes it is simple red tape and government foolishness which causes blackouts, sometimes it's poor planning, equipment failures, operator error (that happens a lot), trees on lines, ice on lines, strong winds even.
We had turkey vultures shut us down several times, someone shot a hog with a bow but didn't kill it and it ran off under one of our lines to die, vultures were sitting on our lines as they took turns eating the hog. Their wings shorted us out, tripped off 138000 volt circuits. We couldn't chase the birds away because they are protected...we ended up having to rerun our lines, spaced them out so the damn birds couldn't reach across and short them. Those freaking birds cost millions of dollars...
A lot of legit reasons why power might trip off or not be available, it is usually a tangible reason ho, not just because some manager is a richardhead.
The average person thinks that the execs can just shut down the plant when they want. Don't forget there are numerous regulatory agencies depending on your state and the power you are using. Just off the top of my head there is NERC, FERC, NRC, EPA, and a whole host of PUCs and other state and local agencies/regulations. The plants also have to let the grid operators know how much power they can provide, and if there are any planned outages like "Turnarounds" or "Nuclear Refuels". The plants can also lose $1M+ per day depending on their size. There can also be fines in extreme cases.
Source - me. After I worked at a fossil plant I went on to be an NRC cyber inspector, and then worked at a nuclear plant for about 5 years and contracted at others for another few years.
Merry Christmas.
Yep. Our grid here in Texas is basically isolated from the larger national grid, we connect or used to in only two places. So we can 'kinda' manage our own situation, and the best thing is we can be buffered from national grid emergencies.
But even here we allowed chinese wind and solar farms to operate on the grid, and even be counted as 'X' percent of available power. This is a false thing- wind and solar will never be available in emergency, they should never be counted as available power for the grid.
America needs more nukular, gas turbine, coal and geothermal type plants. We need more spinning reserve, wind and solar cannot pump out the current on a cold wintry night. But if we had 1 turbine sitting idle and were running the others with all the boilers up we could bring another turbine online in less than 20 minutes, add another 120 megawatts.
And because we actually performed all our maintenances our stuff ran, the most efficient plant I worked with was older gas turbine tech, but being older tech we had everything we needed to keep them running smoothly. We were more reliable than most of the newer engines, many of them had teething troubles and couldn't be online with our efficiency.
But you gotta do your maintenances, in States where that isn't a priority power can be kinda sketchy. ERCOT liked to keep one of our turbines in reserve, they knew we could spin right up whereas the newer ones might be balky.
I understand when things happen that power will go off, but nothing happened - they just did it.
I doubt it, and how would you know if something happened? I don't mean weather related, stuff like a relay failure or computer glitch can trip you, a bad instrumentation reading from a RTD on the turbine or some such, happens every day
But ok, they are out to get you.....
Because they put out press releases that it was an ELECTIVE blackout. It wasn't for a reason.
Yeah, scheduled outages are elective, absolutely. You just were not informed of the reason.
they were only 'scheduled' a few hours before they went into effect a 2 am. In fact the TVA spokesman had said on the 6 pm news that the system was good, no power outages expected or planned. Then at 2 am, other news went out. Something slippery went on and I am going FOIA NES and TVA for communications going back six months.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Yeah that'll keep you busy.
I'm closer to the issue than most so it's not a problem for me. Everyone needs a hobby.
That's how it's supposed to work. I don't doubt your expertise.
However, THIS, I think has more to do with WEF, ESG. They get good boi credits when they fall in line with sustainable WEF principles.
Then they can't keep up with demand, so they cut power to customers.
Even more good boi points when they treat their customers like the peasants we are to them.
Considering how the first think Crooked Joe did when he occupied the office is to cut infrastructure, well, there's a pattern emerging, and it isn't pretty.
I was part of the rolling blackout. Power was off for 24 minutes. That's it. Most of us have heat pumps around here and they don't do single digit temps very well, so everyone was running straight electric nonstop.
If the NWO wants to cut power and smoke us out, no doubt that could be done, but not seeing how cutting off power 15-20 minutes really impacts anything.
Did you know at one time they traded power over AOL Instant Messenger? I don't know if they still do, but from 2011 to 2013 I worked at a "Fossil Fuel" power plant running their corporate network security, and I blocked AIM at one point because - who the hell needs AIM at a power plant? I was floored when I found out they used a clear-text play-time messaging service to buy/sell massive amounts of power.
Frankly I'm surprised things lasted this long.
I just did a quick search and found 2 articles mentioning AOL and Yahoo being used to communicate between traders and arrange sales - energy trading. One was 2014 and one was 2017 (when it looks like AIM went away and the traders went to other platforms). BTW - the fossil plant I worked at back then was in CA. I happened to be working in the datacenter the day that line was cut in AZ and threw San Diego (and a bunch of other places) into darkness. It was really nice being in the nice cool (and powered) datacenter...
Note - I didn't trade. I was network security. I only knew about it when I blocked AIM at the firewalls and IPSs and instantly had people in my office.
https://www.floridatrend.com/article/17404/energy-power-traders-in-florida
https://www.tradersmagazine.com/departments/brokerage/what-next-for-traders-saying-goodbye-to-aol-instant-messenger/
except TVA generates its own power and nuclear is considered 'uninterruptible', right? They elected to interrupt is how the news articles are relaying it: TVA ASKED local utilities to go offline voluntarily and they did. WTF?! There are contracts between providers and customers and laws governing interruption of power services when temps fall below a certain degree. These voluntarily blackouts breached ALL of those agreements is my point. There was no point or purpose except to basically to show what they can do, and they did it without regard to customers and the impacts these voluntary blackouts had on them.