I said my piece here:
https://will-bates.medium.com/electric-power-deregulation-in-texas-the-history-of-a-bad-idea-bbe001f5b644
Dave, I'm glad you mentioned the diversion of the natural gas to home heating; it's been underlooked as a factor by those trying to explain this thing.
A question I'd like to see answered in an investigation is wh…
Dave, I'm glad you mentioned the diversion of the natural gas to home heating; it's been underlooked as a factor by those trying to explain this thing.
A question I'd like to see answered in an investigation is why ERCOT didn't make a public appeal to people to reduce consumption, and give it a chance to work out. They clearly knew the cold was coming.That self-congratulatory Tweet you reference makes it sound like all is well and is time-stamped 8:37 PM, when demand should be starting to head down.
Now that the decision timeline is out, we can see ERCOT made its call during a 10-12 minute interval about 2:30 am Monday morning, mostly based on generation dropping off. So a public appeal would not have worked at that point in crisis. But, you'd think someone might have had an inkling of what might be coming th eevening before. There have been a few curious references to a high (60%?) penetration of electric heat pumps that cycle on automatically unless turned down.
I said my piece here:
https://will-bates.medium.com/electric-power-deregulation-in-texas-the-history-of-a-bad-idea-bbe001f5b644
Dave, I'm glad you mentioned the diversion of the natural gas to home heating; it's been underlooked as a factor by those trying to explain this thing.
A question I'd like to see answered in an investigation is why ERCOT didn't make a public appeal to people to reduce consumption, and give it a chance to work out. They clearly knew the cold was coming.That self-congratulatory Tweet you reference makes it sound like all is well and is time-stamped 8:37 PM, when demand should be starting to head down.
I read an appeal by the head of ERCOT to *please* reduce thermostats to 68F
Now that the decision timeline is out, we can see ERCOT made its call during a 10-12 minute interval about 2:30 am Monday morning, mostly based on generation dropping off. So a public appeal would not have worked at that point in crisis. But, you'd think someone might have had an inkling of what might be coming th eevening before. There have been a few curious references to a high (60%?) penetration of electric heat pumps that cycle on automatically unless turned down.