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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by beerandt on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:29AM (#26163059)
>Granted, the reason for that outage was very different from what happened in Texas

There are actually a lot of ice/ freezing-rain downed powerlines happening simultaneously with the rolling blackouts, and that's a huge part of the problem.

The grid/supply is being blamed for both. Of course if the lines weren't down, it would increase demand and there wouldn't magically be any more supply to feed them... but it does explain why a lot of people's blackouts aren't "rolling."

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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by JamesBarney on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:46AM (#26163144)
The grid supply issue is orders of magnitude worst than the downed powerlines.

I don't know anyone who is affected by a downed powerline and I know 12 people without power.

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