re: Electric Cars Are Now Being Targeted For Overloading The Electric Grids

Nah, they want people concentrated into cities, living in tiny apartments, and taking public transit.

"You will own nothing and be happy."

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This is the responsible thing to do, but compliance has been woefully inadequate.

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The ERCOT head stated that on Monday the power grid load dropped around 2PM -- the time they asked consumers to cut back. So Texans are complying. Even the Texas Rangers raised temps at Globe Life Field from 72 to 75.

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This is the responsible thing to do, but compliance has been woefully inadequate. I know everyone hates to word "mandate", but given the unreal heat Texas has experienced for the past two months, that will become the order of the day.

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People are trying to reduce their electricity usage but we're also pissed because we've been told MULTIPLE times that ERCOT has made changes to ensure adequate supply and it's not true. Yes, we're in a heat wave and a drought, that happens here. Our current situation is not as severe as the summer of 2011 though, meaning they've had 11 years to prepare for this type of summer and they know that we've seen substantial population growth since then.

This article from April 2021, showing they ran the models of "extreme scenarios" and KNEW we were unprepared. Yet more than a year later, here we are in one of those extreme scenarios and we're... still unprepared.
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Heading into the summer, ERCOT included three extreme scenarios in a preliminary assessment of the state’s power resources for the summer — the most extreme calculations ERCOT has ever considered for the seasonal assessment. Each scenario would leave the grid short a significant amount of power, which would trigger outages to residents:

In the first scenario, a drought similar to what the state saw in 2011, combined with low winds, several natural gas plants offline and an increase in economic activity as the pandemic eases, would leave the power grid short 3,600 megawatts, or enough to power 720,000 homes.

Add low solar power generation to the first projection (say it’s a cloudy day), and the grid would be short 7,500 megawatts, or enough to power 1.5 million homes.

In the most extreme scenario ERCOT considered, a severe heat wave across the entire state combined with outages for every major power source would leave the grid short 14,000 megawatts, or enough to power 2.8 million homes.

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Abbott Tweet: Texas has taken unprecedented steps to protect our power infrastructure & increase generation to ensure that the grid is capable of meeting demand.

Abbott Tweet: The Public Utilities Chair explains why the power grid is more reliable:

We have also paid increased rates and all sorts of "recovery fees" based on the February 2021 freeze that we were told were being used to upgrade our grid. Yet here we are.

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Targeted by whom - Elon Musk. Did you read your own post? Holy farts - some of you are so full of hate you can't think.

I love ignorance on display.
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failure to grasp what is stated and what the topic is.

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Well - the topic is that EV's are being targeted - but you fail to mention the person you quote is the CEO of the largest EV company in the world. Further, you fail to notice the flexibility of EV's where a message can be sent to owners to request their help in difficult times. You'd never be able to do that with ICE cars during a fuel shortage.

Finally, some EV's can give back to the grid and in the near future all will. So EV's charging at night - whent he grid is not stressed, can SUPPORT the grid during the day if they are still plugged in. Holy Farts again.