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Originally posted by Mexdeer19 View PostI’m in New Braunfels and get power for 45 minutes then off for 1:15. My buddy owns a house a couple miles away and hasn’t lost power yet. Not sure how they are picking and choosing.
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Originally posted by Greenheadless View PostAlmost 1/2 of Centerpoint’s customers in Houston is without power.
They say capacity is reduced by 20-30%, yet all major industrial customers who signed up to do so in an emergency have been cut and 1/2 of the customers have no power. Something is not adding up.
Mines been out since midnight last night.
My brother’s out in Katy as been out since 4PM yesterday.
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Ours just came back on. Been out since 5am. Hopefully this is good news for the rest of yallLast edited by hogslayer78; 02-15-2021, 05:14 PM.
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Originally posted by SB09 View PostIt’s all done as one entity. Power isn’t separated from Austin and DFW. It’s a statewide grid. The guy from ERCOT said they had multiple forms of power production go down. Our capacity is 74,000mw. By time everything went down was accounted for, we are operating on 44,000mw. So, they lost close to half the grid to, unknown reasons.
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This is the right explanation. Just because a power plant is near you or wind turbines near you, that doesn’t necessarily mean that is where power is coming from. Solar was down at night, wind turbines are down. A lot of coal plants that were reliable were shut down in years past. I actually worked at one. With the way the weather had been, units are going to have problems. It’s not good but if they dont do black outs the whole state could go dark.
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Originally posted by Throwin Darts View PostIn Aledo. Had rolling blackouts starting at midnight. Lost power at 3 AM. Still off as of 5 PM.
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In Willow Park and we never had rolling blackouts it just dropped around 2 AM and still out!
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Originally posted by Tcooper93 View PostIn Willow Park and we never had rolling blackouts it just dropped around 2 AM and still out!
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Originally posted by Maddox View PostI want to know how they pick who to cut off and who to leave up, and who gets to make that decision.
We have Bluebonnet in Burleson co
Ours have been on n off at 30 min intervals since last night.
While my brother n friends on another stretch of road hasn’t lost power yet.
I have lots of wood cut and 2 fireplaces we’ll b fine for a few more days.
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