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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by naebother on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:17PM (#26160809)
Anyone have break down of which areas had their power cut for how long?
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by zamadatix on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:57PM (#26161672)
It's still ongoing for millions at the moment but there was a nice map in https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/02/16/tex... for this morning.
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by Ecto5 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:35PM (#26161965)
It will be interesting to see which communities had their power cut and which were barely affected
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by hotsauceror on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:58PM (#26162482)
There was a rather morbid photograph on one of the local news sites the other night of Austin looking south along I-35 during the rolling blackouts. The East Side was more or less pitch black. The west side - downtown, the capitol, the stadium, the Frost Bank building etc - was lit up like a Christmas tree.

The east side was created by redlining policies put in place 100 years ago, and is where much of Austin’s lower income population lives.

It wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive statistical analysis but it was a pretty stark photo.

Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by pault on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:56PM (#26162114)
About half of Austin has been out for 42 hours now. Source: I’m one of them.
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by naebother on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:01AM (#26162900)
That's ridiculous. I always thought the point of rolling blackouts was to make sure no one area was without power for too long.
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by pixl97 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:34AM (#26163395)
Rolling only works for demand overages of up to 20% or so. With a loss of generation capacity of over 1/3rd of generation that is out the window.

They were trying to keep the grid alive and not have a statewide blackout.