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A comment on UK Plans for Three-Hour Power Blackouts in Event of Gas Shortages. Parent comment

Re:UK Plans for Three-Hour Power Blackouts in Event of Gas S... by pharrington on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:42PM (#33113044)
In February of last year, a winter storm led to Texas having multi-day power outages, exasperated by the fact that ERCOT does not connect to any other grids.
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Re:UK Plans for Three-Hour Power Blackouts in Event of Gas S... by alexchamberlain on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:45PM (#33113090)
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection#Ties, the Texas grid has DC ties to the Eastern grid, and similar ties into Mexico.
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Re:UK Plans for Three-Hour Power Blackouts in Event of Gas S... by pharrington on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:10PM (#33113410)
Strictly speaking - 3 DC ties (from some cursory searching, they seem to only be used for power export) and 1 AC tie, that has only ever been used once. Texas is technically, but not meaningfully, connected to neighboring power grids.
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