Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working political angles

Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by watmough on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:20PM (#26173765)

Here in Spring Texas, I’m seeing rolling blackouts since Tuesday pm. Few hours on. Few hours off. Having a gas fire and stove is killing it for us. I’m planning on switching one of our water heaters to gas so we can be covered for hot water in power outages.

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Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by other_herbert on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:45PM (#26173974)

I’ve gone tankless and have a gas tankless water heater on a battery backup and I can also power it from a generator if needed... so from the battery I get around 90 mins of usage... highly recommended

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Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by macintux on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:49PM (#26174001)

It sounds like you're one of the relatively lucky ones. From what I've heard "rolling" blackouts are a misnomer for large swathes of the state, unless by "rolling" you mean "the blackout rolled in and never rolled out".

Good luck. I'd be glad to suffer short blackouts here if the grid were interconnected so we could share power with your state.

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Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by jounker on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:53PM (#26174034)

Yeah, rolling blackout seems to mean more than 24 hours for my friends and relative back there.

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