Tonight’s ride through the Texas Power Grid Sphincter is underway. 😬 #ercot #TexasPowerGrid

Texans, the #ERCOT #TexasPowerGrid is forecast to be under serious strain again as the sun goes down this evening and solar generation rolls offline. Be ready to shut off a few lights and turn the a/c a few degrees higher for an hour or two around 6pm-7pm tonight, and avoid doing the laundry or running the dishwasher. Just today & tomorrow to grit through and we’ll get past this as it FINALLY starts to feel like fall here.

Close one tonight, y’all, but it held. 😬 🔌🔋⚡️#ERCOT #TexasPowerGrid

#TexasPowerGrid #ERCOT supply is *real* tight for the next half-hour or so as we move through sunset and the last of solar rolls offline…if you can turn your A/C warmer by a degree or two please do.

#ERCOT #TexasPowerGrid getting a little relief today…first day in something like a full week that the temps stayed out of triple-digit territory for most and we are *not* under a conservation warning.🔌⚡️

It’s like Groundhog Day all over again except it’s hot as 🤬. #ERCOT #TexasPowerGrid #ConservationRequested

Texan taxpayers paid a Bitcoin company $18 million not to operate for four days during the state’s energy outage:
#Texaspowergrid

#gregabbott - why doesn’t grids go down at -20 but in #texas +22 means #Texaspowergrid fails?
#gregabbottfailedtexasagain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/02/04/northeast-record-cold-boston-arctic/

CAVEATS (1 of 3)

A “WARINING” [sic] prominently printed on the outside of this product reads, “Never use this stove without the drip pan and grate in place.”

There is no closed bottom on this product and food can fall all the way through via the opening around in inside the burner element, so you’ll want to have a true drip pan underneath this product when using it, especially indoors.

#EmergencyCooking #TexasPowerGrid #ERCOT #Camping #Kitchen #Cooking #EmergencyPreparedness #Prepping

#leaopardsatemyface
#Texas
#Texaspowergrid

AP News: Frustrated Texans endure winter storm with no power, heat
https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Just now ordered this portable butane gas stove now on sale at Amazon. I bought it for emergencies, but it might also come in handy in my non-emergency kitchen, which has a (very nice) electric cooktop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2AESJA

#EmergencyCooking #TexasPowerGrid #ERCOT #Camping #Kitchen #Cooking #EmergencyPreparedness #Prepping

Just now ordered this portable butane gas stove now on sale at Amazon. I bough it for emergencies, but it might also come in handy in my non-emergency kitchen, which has a very nice electric cooktop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2AESJA

#EmergencyCooking #TexasPowerGrid #ERCOT #Camping #Kitchen #Cooking #EmergencyPreparedness #Prepping

Well, the weather outside is frightful and getting frightfull-er.

Please keep a happy thought for the Tejas grid--stable as far as we can tell right now. Freezing rain (more) on the way tonight and well into tomorrow.

#winterweather #winterintexas #texaswinters #texaspowergrid #freezing #freezingtemperatures #texasunprepared

@ghostdansing Guess they learned their lesson from two years ago. Haha! #texaspoweroutage #texaspowergrid

No matter how hard Republican leaders lie, the winter grid for Texas has never actually been repaired.

"Despite investigations and legislation after the power crisis that killed hundreds, as of January 2022, little has changed in the electricity system and Texas remains at risk of major blackouts in another winter storm. Power company Vistra, which is investing $80 million to prepare its plants for cold weather, says another power crisis could happen."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-electric-grid-failure-warm-up/

#texaspowergrid

The Texas Power Grid has failed again.
While #ERCOT makes millions with lobbyist in chief #Abbott providing, ppl #freeze.
#Texas #Texaspowergrid.
#GregAbbott #ArticFront
#Weather

Thank goodness Texans elected a new governor who recognized how terrible the state's power infrastructure is and worked to get it back on the national grid so there wouldn't be mass power outages during a winter storm aga-oh. Oh yeah. Oopsie.

#TexasPowerGrid #GQP #politics

I wonder if there's some word in German for an obscure subject where, if you find yourself learning a lot about it, it means something has gone seriously wrong. #ERCOT #texaspowergrid #blackstart #midnightconnection