Last time I looked - admittedly a while - Texas made it VERY difficult
for municipalities to set up broadband utilities, even in areas where no
commercial player was interested. Maybe that's catching up to them.
Miles Fidelman
Brandon Svec wrote:
Mismanagement and poor planning are primarily to blame. One can't
just blame the weather. We know weather will be bad and have extreme
variations. I am sure Texas politicians are considering what they
could have done better right now..
https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/1361682089310052354
*Brandon *
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 8:53 AM John Von Essen <j...@essenz.com
<mailto:j...@essenz.com>> wrote:
I just assumed most people in Texas have heat pumps- AC in the
summer and minimal heating in the winter when needed. When the
entire state gets a deep freeze, everybody is running those heat
pumps non-stop, and the generation capacity simply wasn’t there.
i.e. coal or natural gas plants have some turbines offline, etc.,.
in the winter because historically power use is much much less.
The odd thing is its been days now, those plants should be able to
ramp back up to capacity - but clearly they haven’t. Blaming this
on wind turbines is BS. In fact, if it weren’t for so many people
in Texas with grid-tie solar systems, the situation would be even
worse.
And of course, the real issue is Texas’ closed grid - any other
state could pull in more power from neighbors.
-John
On Feb 15, 2021, at 11:34 PM, Cory Sell via NANOG
<nanog@nanog.org <mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> wrote:
Ercot has already released actual documentation of the outputs.
Wind is NOT the biggest loss here. Even if wind was operating at
100% capacity, we’d be in the same boat due to gas and fossil
fuel-related generation being decimated. Estimated 4GW lost for
wind doesn’t make up for the 30GW+ estimated being lost from
fossil fuels.
I only interject because people are already pointing their
fingers at renewables being the cause here and trying to pawn off
the blame to wind/solar to further their agendas to reduce
renewable energy R&D and adoption. Sure, wind isn’t perfect, but
looks like solution relied on failed in a massive way.
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:17 PM, Robert Jacobs
<rjac...@pslightwave.com <mailto:rjac...@pslightwave.com>> 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..
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<mailto:nanog-bounces+rjacobs=pslightwave....@nanog.org>> On
Behalf Of Mark Tinka
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 10:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts
On 2/16/21 04:14, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Poweroutage.us <http://Poweroutage.us> posted a terrific map,
showing the jurisdictional
> borders of the Texas power outages versus the storm related power
> outages elsewhere in the country.
>
> https://twitter.com/PowerOutage_us/status/1361493394070118402
>
>
> Sometimes infrastructure planning failures are not due to
"natural
> hazards."
I suppose having some kind of home backup solution wouldn't be
too bad right now, even though you may still not get access to
services. But at least, you can brew some coffee, and charge
your pulse oximetre.
Mark.
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