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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Last time I looked - admittedly a while
- Texas made it VERY difficult for municipalities to set up
broadband utilities, even in areas where no commercial player was
interested. Maybe that's catching up to them.<br>
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Miles Fidelman<br>
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Mismanagement and
poor planning are primarily to blame. One can't just
blame the weather. We know weather will be bad and have
extreme variations. I am sure Texas politicians are
considering what they could have done better right now.. <a
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 8:53
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<div
style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">I
just assumed most people in Texas have heat pumps- AC in
the summer and minimal heating in the winter when needed.
When the entire state gets a deep freeze, everybody is
running those heat pumps non-stop, and the generation
capacity simply wasn’t there. i.e. coal or natural gas
plants have some turbines offline, etc.,. in the winter
because historically power use is much much less. The odd
thing is its been days now, those plants should be able to
ramp back up to capacity - but clearly they haven’t.
Blaming this on wind turbines is BS. In fact, if it
weren’t for so many people in Texas with grid-tie solar
systems, the situation would be even worse.
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<div>And of course, the real issue is Texas’ closed grid -
any other state could pull in more power from neighbors.</div>
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<div>Ercot has already released actual
documentation of the outputs. Wind is NOT the
biggest loss here. Even if wind was operating at
100% capacity, we’d be in the same boat due to
gas and fossil fuel-related generation being
decimated. Estimated 4GW lost for wind doesn’t
make up for the 30GW+ estimated being lost from
fossil fuels. </div>
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<div>I only interject because people are already
pointing their fingers at renewables being the
cause here and trying to pawn off the blame to
wind/solar to further their agendas to reduce
renewable energy R&D and adoption. Sure,
wind isn’t perfect, but looks like solution
relied on failed in a massive way.</div>
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<div>How about letting us Texans have more
natural gas power plants or even let the gas
be delivered to the plants we have so they can
provide more power in an emergency. Did not
help that 20% of our power is now wind which
of course in an ice storm like we are having
is shut off... Lots of issues and plenty of
politics involved here.. <br>
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Subject: Re: Texas internet connectivity
declining due to blackouts<br>
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On 2/16/21 04:14, Sean Donelan wrote:<br>
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> <a href="http://Poweroutage.us"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Poweroutage.us</a>
posted a terrific map, showing the
jurisdictional <br>
> borders of the Texas power outages versus
the storm related power <br>
> outages elsewhere in the country.<br>
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> <a
href="https://twitter.com/PowerOutage_us/status/1361493394070118402"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://twitter.com/PowerOutage_us/status/1361493394070118402</a><br>
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> Sometimes infrastructure planning
failures are not due to "natural <br>
> hazards."<br>
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I suppose having some kind of home backup
solution wouldn't be too bad right now, even
though you may still not get access to
services. But at least, you can brew some
coffee, and charge your pulse oximetre.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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