The People have Spoken: We should have a RR thread about the winter storm/Texas power infrastructure

This was a thread about Winter power failures.

Texas Residents Asked to Voluntarily ‘Reduce Electric Use’ as Grid Strains Against the Heat

It’s been asked every year for at least a decade.

UA's whining that he's cold doesn't count.

Next Wednesday, large parts of Texas will be hotter than 99% of the planet during the peak of the heatwave.

Widespread temperatures of 110˚F or higher are forecast.

Only the Sahara Desert & Persian Gulf area will be as hot or hotter () than the Lone Star State

https://twitter.com/bennollweather/status/1672579380042948608

Should this go here or the Climate Change thread?

Texas Keeps Setting Power Use Records as Summer Heat Rages

I gather if it weren’t for renewable/sustainable energy they’d be totally fucked.

Just like last winter's big storm and even the really bad one from a couple of years ago, but the anti-renewables shitheads won't admit it.

What do you expect? The majority of the people in the state think Texas is it’s own country.

Ummm…


https://x.com/mixingchris/status/1700176156320739619

At two and half million people Houston is the fourth largest city in the nation.

The first dojo we had in Boise was next to an office with a generic title (can't remember it...that's how generic it was) staffed by some seedy looking slavic guys who were always smoking and left the wet bar we shared a mess. This was almost 10 years ago and back then bitcoin and such were strictly dark web type stuff. We left after a few months and some time later that wing of the office complex burned down. I've often wondered if they were Ukranians or Russians...either way they were a skeevy looking bunch that we were all happy to avoid.

https://www.kut.org/energy-environm...rovide-electricity-in-emergencies-judges-rule

This is like “the police don’t have to protect you.” Then what in the hell do we pay for?!

Lol

Lmao

Yeah, that is not how utilities work. I am not a lawyer, but I have worked for companies considered utilities and it does not work that way. Not to mention there are things like SLA (Service level agreements) that are formed through contracts between providers and commercial entities. I know texass wants to toss all of that out because their fail power companies have some financial liability, but I am pretty sure that is not getting very far once it gets appealed to federal court by the corporations.

That is a good try by texass, but I am pretty sure that is not going to last very long. Maybe the power companies will get lucky and they will fuck residential customers while opening things up for corporate customers, but that is a long shot.

We need to nationalize the grid. What good is a utility company that doesn't provide utilities?

The funny thing is that Texas made its own grid so it didn’t have to pay more into the national grid. “Let’s be independent!” How’s that working for you, Texas?

Texans Are Using a Fast Food App to Map Hurricane Power Outages

Wait, Texans' power companies don't show outage maps? Even my publicly owned local power utility has an outage map available for its millions of customers.

Are Texas power companies running their websites on Geocities?

Mine does but I live in a great city, not Houston.

Oh nice, so you live outside of Texas?

I think GeoCities would be an improvement, tbh

Holy shit. I am really dreading the next bad hurricane season here in florida. Maybe it won't be so bad since we do not have that really awesome unregulated texass power grid, but it seems like the trumpanzees are a bit off the hook.

Texas seems to be a dumpster fire…

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4896585-texas-gas-manipulation-lawsuit-uri/