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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.
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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.
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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.

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