Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem
by 542354234235 on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:03AM
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The thing is, rolling blackouts aren't a big deal. In an extreme event like these storms, having a power grid that can survive some loss in capacity with rolling blackouts is the goal. What happened in Texas was a complete failure of the entire gird over huge swaths of land leading to millions of people being without power for multiple days. Most people don’t need generators or powerwalls for a once a decade risk of some rolling blackouts. Most communities don’t need more expensive, less efficient micro power grids for the occasional rolling blackout.
It is less expensive to weatherize the grid so it can remain mostly functional in extreme events than to have tens of millions of households buy and maintain generators so they don’t freeze to death because the actual power grid was not properly built and maintained.
I'm not sure how expensive it is to weatherize the grid but I would imagine it to be very expensive.