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74-911 08-03-2011 01:34 PM
Heat Index 110 and rolling brownouts ?
 
Just received an e-mail from ERCOT (the organization that manages the TX Electric Grid) asking users to volunarily limit electricity usage between 3PM and 7PM to help avoid rolling brownouts...

Apparently every generator in TX is running full tilt and if any go off-line the brownouts will start...

stomachmonkey 08-03-2011 01:35 PM
Heard yesterday they were "borrowing" power from neighboring states and Mexico.

patssle 08-03-2011 02:36 PM
Quote:
About 20 power plants with 3,000 megawatts of capacity were offline Tuesday due to unplanned outages
20 plants. WHY? Nobody is giving reasons to why the plants are going offline.

techweenie 08-03-2011 03:01 PM
California had 20% of its plants taken offline for "maintenance" and it turned out to be a (pardon the pun) power play by Enron.

If the TX utilities have to start buying out of state electrons, it could get pricey, fast. Hopefully there are some actual journalists left somewhere to look into it.

74-911 08-03-2011 03:06 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by techweenie (Post 6175262)
Hopefully there are some actual journalists left somewhere to look into it.
I'm sure those TV news "journalists" will be all over the story


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