<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2021/02/16/electricity-retailer-griddys-unusual-plea-to-texas-customers-leave-now-before-you-get-a-big-bill/">https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2021/02/16/electricity-retailer-griddys-unusual-plea-to-texas-customers-leave-now-before-you-get-a-big-bill/</a><div><br></div><div>The power market in Texas has utterly failed.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE<br class="">6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC <br class="">CEO <br class=""><a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net" class="">ben@6by7.net</a><br class="">"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class="">FCC License KJ6FJJ<br class=""></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 16, 2021, at 9:15 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Robert Jacobs wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>How about letting us Texans have more natural gas power plants or even</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>let the gas be delivered to the plants we have so they can provide more</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>power in an emergency. Did not help that 20% of our power is now wind</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>which of course in an ice storm like we are having is shut off... Lots of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>issues and plenty of politics involved here..</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span> Turns out that you Texans already get a majority of your power from</span><br><span> Natural Gas.</span><br><span></span><br><span> So there's already a significant amount of power from natural gas already.</span><br><span></span><br><span> Things I learned about the most-of-Texas Grid today:</span><br><span></span><br><span> - Natural Gas plants provide MORE THAN HALF of their total electricity</span><br><span> generation in 2019 (WOW!)</span><br><span> - Texas has their own grid to avoid Federal regulation.</span><br><span> - Texas does have some links to other grids but they don't trigger federal</span><br><span> regulation for some reason.</span><br><span> - Texas is the largest energy-producing and energy-consuming state in</span><br><span> the nation. The industrial sector, including its refineries and</span><br><span> petrochemical plants, accounts for half of the energy consumed in the</span><br><span> state.</span><br><span> - 5 Gigawatts of coal-fired capacity has retired since 2016, and</span><br><span> supplies 20% of power currently.</span><br><span> - Wind power provided about 17% of their usage</span><br><span> - There are two nuclear plants in Texas, only providing 10% of power.</span><br><span> - One of those nuclear plants are offline due to weather-related issues.</span><br><span></span><br><span>From the WashPost: "The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to</span><br><span>prepare for cold weather"</span><br><span>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/16/ercot-texas-electric-grid-failure/</span><br><span></span><br><span>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span>Peter Beckman Internet Guy</span><br><span>beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/</span><br><span>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>