Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by tyingq on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @06:52PM
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It does look like they intended to roll, then figured out they didn't have enough capacity to roll. So, the people "rolled" first got stuck.
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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by rst on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:31PM
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Rolling outages are when they've got enough power for some neighborhoods, but not all of them. Texas is so short of power right now that they've dropped power everywhere they can, excepting only certain critical facilities (hospitals, police), and continued operation of the grid itself -- a totally cold restart, they say, could take weeks.
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by tyingq on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:22AM
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A rolling outage would be relatively short in duration, and "roll" from one area to another. No roll happened here, just a bunch of areas off for long periods of time, and others not off at all.