Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65

Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by thechao on Sunday February 21, 2021 @08:30AM (#26213300)

This is a week about every 10 years best case, right now, where I’m at (near Austin). We lose water for twice that long every 5 years. The reliability is probably less than 99% for power, and 95% for water.

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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by xibalba on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:22AM (#26213612)

Fellow Austinite here. To what events are you referring? I have no recollection of multiday power or water outages in the last 10 years.

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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by AgentOrange1234 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:29AM (#26213652)

We had a boil water notice that lasted for a couple weeks after bad storms just a year or two ago, and now this one. I don’t think we’ve had power issues like this recently.

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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by tankenmate on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:31AM (#26213667)

Do you live near a hospital? I have seen reported in some news articles that people who live near hospitals have been less affected.

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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by sanp on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:36AM (#26213697)

thechao is probably referring to the 2011 outage - dunno if that was multi-day though

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