re: Texas people: ERCOT warning

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Texas has its own grid except Beaumont ( still on us east grid… El Paso ( on us west grid)… they did not want to include those due to economics when developing our own.. anyone remember the two cities that did not have people freeze and massive pipe damage last big freeze…

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El Paso is part of another grid but including it with people who didn’t freeze is a little misleading which was typical of Abbot haters. First went below freezing Sunday morning the 14th and still got above freezing on Monday Feb 15th in afternoon for several hours. Starting Tuesday mid morning went above freezing consistently outside a few hour dip below early AM Friday.

Beaumont wasn’t much worse with temps than El Paso but did add some snow.

Parts of DFW were already mostly going below freezing starting Feb 10th then had 5 to 8 days straight of freezing temps (depending on if weather reports of brief temps at 33 were consistent) which included some single digit and negative temps to only start having consistent temps above freezing on Saturday the 20th.


ERCOT can connect to other grids to purchase and sell energy (DC, limited in number & less capacity connections but happens), and in the past has made mistakes on on selling or releasing rights to purchase before weather conditions kick in that push more extreme usage than expected on top of already too low reserve margins needed during peeks. Not sure if this is the case with this, but I lived in Texas one summer when it hit 100 or above for most of July & August and didn’t have any outages.