Re:California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3
by lesuorac on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:51PM
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> Their page downplayed the risks of variable pricing and their process during the ordeal was unprofessional.
That's rather unspecific. As far as I've seen the risk of 9k/MW always comes up in articles about Griddy (even pre-2021) and even happened to customers prior to 2021. And before the storm they notified customers that they should "switch providers" due to expected high prices.
The 2021 storm could be a 1/100 year but a non-trival winter storm hits Texas every 10 years. Letting pipes burst due to an extreme event can be a valid strategy but just be honest that the plan is that.
It was a 100 year freeze, not a decade one. Never in my life until then did we have longer than 2 days of snow/ice.
Most of us don't insulate our pipes for that reasoning, though flexpiping is common to help against minor freezing.
Same reason as to why a lot of people don't have A/Cs on the West Coast.
Yeah the grid should have been winterized, but the pricing problem for customers was entirely on Griddy.
I have a question, are you from Texas?