Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[two_bit_score]

As a reminder, a software bug in Ohio caused on of the largest US power outages in 2003.

Northeast blackout of 23 - Wikipedia

Was it’s initials “RS”?

 

[rswyan]

First energy, who now owns my electric utility in MD.

Pretty sure First Energy - who does not own General Electric Energy - at least as AFAIK - wasn't responsible for the software fault in GEE's Unix-based XA/21 energy management system that they were using at the time.

Or maybe they DO (own GEE) ... :laughing:

 

[rswyan]

We are flaring off NG all over the state as people are shivering. ...

Whose fault is that do you figure ?

:laughing:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Pretty sure First Energy - who does not own General Electric Energy - at least as AFAIK - wasn't responsible for the software fault in GEE's Unix-based XA/21 energy management system that they were using at the time.

Or maybe they DO (own GEE) ... :laughing:

Didn’t say they did..

 

[txdon]

We ended out last rolling blackout here at 9pm last night (2-17). I hope. Looking at our outage website there are no outages.

Have the rolling blackouts in all of Texas stopped?

 

[Bird]

We ended out last rolling blackout here at 9pm last night (2-17). I hope. Looking at our outage website there are no outages.

Have the rolling blackouts in all of Texas stopped?

Yes, according to Fox 4 news about 3 minutes ago. We only had that single one hour outage yesterday; been lucky so far. And while there's been a lot of water outages also, we only had a steady drip for a couple of days and now back to near normal. They supposedly had to drain our main water tower to replace some kind of valve in it, and temporarily hooked us up to another town's water.

 

[ruffdog]

Here they collect gas from the landfill and sell to the power company.

Ameresco's Janesville Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plant is Operational - Ameresco

 

[Tinhack]

Just got my electric back last night about 6:00pm or so. Grateful for that as I'm in all an electric house, including heat. First heat and light since Sunday. I was using chaffing fuel cans for heat. Still don't have any water. They were saying warming spots were open about 40 miles away but no way to get there--Icy and roads closed.

I had a stock of distilled water in the barn for coolant mixing. I brought that in the house for flushing and washing. Sister brought over about 6 gallons of water for drinking and cooking. I had about three gallons in stock. Stores around here are closed or empty of necessities. Just like the pandemic rush last March, shelves were cleared out early. Most all were taking cash only as registers and CC machines were out. Banks were closed so only cash on hand was available. Places weren't even taking checks.

I hope some head roll over this. They saw this coming for a week and no one did a thing to prepare. I'm glad my neighbors and I were able to make through this unprecedented cold. A lot didn't.

 

[lostcreekranch]

As a reminder, a software bug in Ohio caused one of the largest US power outages in 2003.

Northeast blackout of 23 - Wikipedia

I'm guessing RS conveniently "forgot" that .. in his efforts to criticize everything about Texas .. and Texans.

 

[txdon]

5 ERCOT board members don’t live in Texas, one from Canada | KXAN Austin


Also 10 years ago ERCOT did come out with guidelines for winterizing power plants and did give incentive monies if they stayed on line. I think now they should assess penalties if they do not winterize. Too late to be Mr. nice guy. I'm pretty sure the investigation will show that the plants that went down did not winterize.