Posted by John in La on February 18, 2021 at 08:16:01 from (97.80.71.85):
In Reply to: Texas posted by teddy52food on February 18, 2021 at 06:35:23:
First off winter is maintenance time in the south. We do maintenance on electric plants and oil refineries in the winter. So some of the electric plants in Texas were shut down during these normally slow time of the year. Couple that with some renewable production went down. They under predicted maximum daily usage. They are not hooked to the national grid. And you got the start of a problem brewing.
Then you add in the unprecedented cold that we are not equipped to handle.
But the main reason the grid went down in Texas is the Natural gas supply. Texas gets over 50% of its electricity from natural gas. Because of their ready supply of gas they do not have much storage. Because of the cold the normal gas supply from west Texas to the big cities in the east was cut off due to freezing problems. Without a steady fuel supply electric production was not able to keep up.
The water has the same problem. We are not equipped for the cold. With so many letting the water drip to keep the pipes from freezing the water treatment plant gets over whelmed. Once the water pressure gets to a set low amount it automatically triggers a boil water order.
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