ERCOT is warning of rolling blackouts this weekend with temps in the low 99s? WTH have they been doing for the last year and a half? We haven’t even gotten close to 100° yet and this is happening? Californians really need to quit moving here.
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Originally posted by lck90 View PostLink to where they are saying this?
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I just read that ERCOT was asking power plants not to shut down for maintenance like they typically do in the spring just so there’s enough power for this weekend.
No new power plants have been built, there is currently a major shortage of transformers, and there’s been a LOT of new construction as well as a large influx of new residents to Texas. If you aren’t preparing and expecting for there to be power problems this summer if temps are high then you’ve got your head in the sand.
If you don’t at least have a generator, window unit, and a couple of extra gas cans then now is the time to pick them up.
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Originally posted by STX_Shooter View PostI work at a power plant and 2 of our 3 turbine generators are out. We have not been told about being available or to be prepared for anything yet.
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Originally posted by STX_Shooter View PostI work at a power plant and 2 of our 3 turbine generators are out. We have not been told about being available or to be prepared for anything yet.
Texas is about to get very hot with the weather forecasted to hit triple digits this weekend in many areas across the state, including San Antonio.
ERCOT asks power plants to postpone planned outages to meet demand of extreme heat forecasted this weekend
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Summer's come on too fast for the generic outage schedule allowed year to year.
Funny thing is when all the wind and solar came online the old coals were shutdown, you know because we have wind and solar now.
I heard this morning (on a call w/ our plants scheduling/trading dept) that solar is supposed to hit a record 9K mw's for ERCOT this weekend. Still ain't enough to fill the outage gap obviously.
The GT/HRB outage I'm working isn't scheduled to come back online until early June.
Today is day 17 for me, only 30 more to go .
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Originally posted by SmTx View PostWe start getting rolling blackouts and folks are gonna pay more attention to Beto's billboards saying he is the solution to the power grid issues
And uninformed voters would say yeah, yeah, I agree, Abbott bad man.
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