Did you know about the rolling power outages in Texas?
I've heard hearsay about it, but still don't really understand it. I did find this article which tries to explain it a bit better than I've heard, but I still don't understand why or even really how it helps.
Supposedly, by outing electricity in certain areas, it helps with the power supply elsewhere in the state. Honestly I don't understand how that works or how they decide which areas to out and why those areas are out so long instead of the 45 minutes to 2 hours. It was very frustrating yesterday for all those affected. I would think those parents whose kids had to still go to school but sit in the dark cafeteria because of the power outages should be a bit riled too...
Hopefully they will get things back under control and be able to run as they should, according to the mentioned article.
2 comments:
I have been following the Cold weather in Texas with interest. The rolling outages make a lot of sense because they spread the lack of power across most of the users. I think (they didn't say in the article) that otherwise the system would hit capacity and then outages would be random and uncontrolled and some folks would be down for a long time. I found it strange that the cold would cause that kind of problems to the power generating plants.
I'm still happy to have wood stove heat though!
I didn't understand the cold causing it. I guess some of the lines were iced over. we are just in no way equipped to handle it when it gets cold like that.
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