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re: Texas people: ERCOT warning
Posted on 5/14/22 at 4:24 pm to Tigerholic
Posted on 5/14/22 at 4:24 pm to Tigerholic
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We keep adding demand(homes and commercial real estate) but they are limiting production. When was the last power plant built?
Texas has added a huge amount of Wind energy production, its about 20% of all electric production in Texas. But there have also been several new NG plants built in the last 15 years with more in the works.
The problem is 6 plants have suddenly gone offline. Now if Texas was part of the national grid, we could get energy from out of state. But as it stands, our politicians won't allow us to join the national grid.
This post was edited on 5/14/22 at 4:26 pm
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Posted on 5/14/22 at 5:26 pm to Zappas Stache
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The problem is 6 plants have suddenly gone offline. Now if Texas was part of the national grid, we could get energy from out of state. But as it stands, our politicians won't allow us to join the national grid.
Not part of national grid but can still purchase elsewhere. It’s just very limited in amount of connections and capacity of them.
Below was from 2012 and not sure if anything has changed but was first article I found.
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Last summer, when the brutal heat strained Texas’ electric grid and increased worries about blackouts, the grid imported a modest amount of power from Mexico and elsewhere in the United States…
The Texas grid covers about three-quarters of the state’s land area but excludes the Panhandle, El Paso and parts of East Texas. It already has links to other grids. Five “direct current” ties, including three to Mexico, can handle 1,100 megawatts, about 1.5 percent of the grid’s peak-time capacity. The ties can go both ways, though ERCOT has the authority to end the export of power during a crisis
https://www.texastribune.org/2012/03/30/texas-isolated-electric-grid-could-add-outside-tie/
Posted on 5/15/22 at 12:59 am to Zappas Stache
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Now if Texas was part of the national grid, we could get energy from out of state. But as it stands, our politicians won't allow us to join the national grid.
Where did you get the talking point from? Texas has several grid ties.
They are actually exporting over half a gigawatt of power to the Eastern Interconnection.
LINK
There is also an emergency high volume grid tie in Houston that will full connect Texas to the Eastern interconnect.
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