ROLLING BLACKOUTS HAVE BEGUN IN NORTH DALLAS

[Stallion]

Could be hot time in Texas today

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Hoping for the best

Republicans have less experience with adverse conditions

[MagickMuffin]

30. Thanks for your support. Not all Texans are republicans

And Dallas is a Blue county.

[SheltieLover]

2. The wealthy will jet to cool climates & the rest will suffer

Stay safe, all!

[Lovie777]

4. What cities are in the North? . ....

Gov Abbott is enjoying 80 degrees and top of line air condition in Orange County, California.

Take care Texas.

[DFW]

7. Only Dallas and Fort Worth

Even by Texas standards, still considered to be a modest population center.

At least while Abbott is enjoying balmy temperatures in California, Texas is enjoying time without Abbott.

I hope the people at our HQ in Dallas manage to stay cool. Somewhere near 500 people work there.

[Tree Lady]

19. Thanks for letting us know

My daughter works at home in San Antonio, actually Alamo Heights. She thinks since most her neighbors are rich they will try harder to keep electricity on. I think if it goes out it goes out.

[walkingman]

5. Another day in bumfuck Texas....

Is it too much to ask for the energy providers in the energy capital of America to increase our grid capacity? Let's go back to regulated utilities where profit is not the only consideration - the deregulation certainly has not reduced our energy bills.

[ret5hd]

6. Man, not even 9:00 AM...and only about 85 F.

A high of about 104 later…gonna be a rough day…unless you’re visiting a yacht club in California.

[Coventina]

24. Pshaw! 7:20am and it's 93 F.

Going to be 114 (at least) today.

Ah Phoenix!

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[JCMach1]

9. The a$$hats at ERCOT issues warning last night. You only had 2 freaking

Years to fix the grid.

I have a father with dementia. How are you going to roll that blackout?

[dalton99a]

10. They "fixed" it by having Abbott pass a bond to make customers pay for last year's freeze

[JCMach1]

25. And passing on the cost in energy prices

[IbogaProject]

12. They will roll it evenly while avoiding wealthy areas

Can't let their shareholders break a sweat.

[hatrack]

11. FREEDUMB!!!!

[electric_blue68]

13. Have a long time on line friend w a disabled husband...

last time their power stayed on....

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞


Good luck down there!


ETA
Just sent her a message

[blogslug]

14. A video explainer tweet from Mike Collier

Link to tweet

Mike is the Democrat running to defeat Dan Patrick in November

https://www.collierfortexas.com/

[yellowdogintexas]

29. I love Mike Collier!!!!

He will be a fantastic Lt Governor.

I need to send him some $$ he needs it more than Beto.

Our statewide ticket is really awesome this year.


Vote the downballot folks!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Heckuva job Abbott

[LoisB]

16. I hope everyone manages to get through this and that people remember to check on their

elderly family members and neighbors.

[Farmer-Rick]

20. Yes, be safe

What usually kills older people in over heating situations is lack of water.....they don't drink enough water. When it is extremely hot, you sometimes don't even feel thirsty.

And don't forget salts and potassium. If you don't have a heart or kidney problem, salts and potassium can be life savers in the heat and keep your electrolytes balanced.

[LoisB]

22. Excellent advice. Thank you.

[Farmer-Rick]

17. Isn't out of control capitalism wonderful?

It causes severe overheating of the planet then cuts supply of energy needed to keep cool. Then overcharges for that energy that can be gotten for pennies from that thing that is overheating the planet.

Capitalism is sooo broken.

[dumbcat]

18. And it's only July

We're still on pre-heat.

Any Texans remember the summer of 2011?

And it's going to take 2-5 gigawatts of reliable generating capacity (a la nuc plants) to "fix the grid"in the short term. That's not going to happen in a couple of years. We're probably going to hit 80 gigawatts of peak demand today. With the Texas population and housing boom growing as it is we're going to need a few more nuc plants. (And if you say "wind and solar", look at the charts.)

[link:https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/|

Wind is almost non-existent at the time of peak demand.

[Farmer-Rick]

23. Yeah, but the sun never goes away

Well, at least not in our lifetimes.

I use solar power throughout the farm. And I rarely have a problem I can't fix. If I had enough money, I would convert my house to solar power.

It maybe the only solution for Texas, private housing solar setups. Since their power grid is so broken and expensive.

[dumbcat]

27. Yes, solar power is great for many things

But as a retired electrical engineer and former solar (Photovoltaic) consultant, I'll tell you that it is not a solution to grid problems. There are way too many complex issues, both technical and financial.

On a farm or homestead or private residence it's great. I've had solar panels on my roof since 1994. But a grid servicing urban areas is a whole 'nother issue.

[FBaggins]

28. Your reply is true in general... but not in this specific case

When the excess demand is caused directly by air conditioning demands on a hot and sunny day... solar is an excellent fit for "grid problems".

Now... the winter outages that TX recently dealt with? Solar is close to useless in that scenario.

[NickB79]

21. Businesses will start to notice sooner or later

Regular power failures, or constantly high energy costs, will make industry look elsewhere to build new factories in the coming years.

Because remember kids, in 20 years these will be considered cool summers in retrospect. It will be an entirely different world at 2C of warming.

[FBaggins]

26. Link? - On edit, this does not appear to be true.

I can't find that news anywhere.

ERCOT real-time tracking shows capacity at about 20% above current demand.

https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html

On edit - poweroutage.us and Oncor's power outage map shows no such thing. There are about 50 homes without power in and around the DFW metroplex (in 2s and 3s). That's not "rolling blackouts" (let alone "ROLLING BLACKOUTS&quot . That a Monday.

The peak danger was supposed to come in the mid-afternoon. The OP should be deleted.

[FBaggins]

31. 3pm Update

Actual demand is almost 3GW below the projection from yesterday and project to be 2GW lower through the peak period.

No rolling blackouts today unless multiple plants go down unexpectedly.


https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/systemwidedemand

[Aristus]

32. Free market energy.

Because dying of hyperthermia and dehydration beats socialism any day...

[Liberal In Texas]

33. Yeah, I don't think they every happened..

Not that it isn't a possibility in the future. The stagnant dome of high pressure doesn't look like it's going to be leaving anytime soon. This is causing all kinds of bad weather all over the country. The jet stream is broken. Caused by global warming.

The supply and demand graph is starting to become further apart as of this writiing.