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Gregg wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:02 pm Hey Ted, you know where electricity costs ain't through the roof?

My house, bitch.
My house too! In March we sold our 2018 Nissan Leaf (for 5K more than we paid for it used in March of 2021). We ordered a Mustang Mach E (should be here in July). Our house generates way more power than we use, even with an EV.
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My brother loves his Mach E. I was looking forward to riding in it at Thanksgiving, but I was too sick.
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Phoenix520 wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:24 pm My brother loves his Mach E. I was looking forward to riding in it at Thanksgiving, but I was too sick.
Our son has one. We traded him our Leaf for a week (I don’t think he actually drove it, though; he works from home and never goes anywhere). I loved, loved, loved the Mach E. The Leaf was OK, but in the winter I didn’t have the range to make it home from Northern Virginia if I had the heat turned on.

So, to stay on topic, suck it, Ted Cruz!
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Jim wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:49 pm So, what did Texas do to prepare for this summer?
They had guns to buy and were working on making it harder to vote.

Governor Roller Nazi for the win!
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Gregg wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:23 pm
Jim wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:49 pm So, what did Texas do to prepare for this summer?
They had guns to buy and were working on making it harder to vote.

Governor Roller Nazi for the win!
I hear the Attorney General, who has somehow continued to elude the inside of a prison cell, is hard on the trail of twitter bots in order to protect Texans.
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Jim wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:49 pm So, what did Texas do to prepare for this summer?
Schedule outages for maintenance during the spring so they wouldn't have to do maintenance or emergency repairs during the peak summer season.

it backfired on them.
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This is why you participate in a regional interconnection.
Oh, sorry.. Don't mess with Texas!
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Sooner or later the grid will fail. :?
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Volkonski wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:21 pm

Sooner or later the grid will fail AGAIN
FIFY
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Interesting..
Is the Texas 'Energy-Only' Market Adequate?

Texas is the only state in the U.S. with an “energy-only” electricity market, where generators are paid only for the electricity they deliver. This is based on the premise that higher electricity prices during heavier-demand periods incentivize power plant development within the Texas grid. This contrasts with the more common “capacity market,” where generators are required to own certain levels of reserve capacity.

Renewable power’s growing presence generally decreases wholesale electricity prices on sunny and windy days and causes thermal power plants to experience more hours offline. This has reduced the economic incentive to build and properly maintain thermal power plants.
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So… Texas’ grid doesn’t work in the winter *or* the summer?

Three cheers for deregulation, y’all.

It’s going to be well over 100 degrees in much of Texas today. This is crazy.
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"no market solution available"

Nobody could have predicted this. /s
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Meanwhile, my employer here in Michigan just happily sold some reserve capacity to utilities in east Texas that don't participate in ERCOT.
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Question: would the other main US electric grid even have reserve capacities this time of the year to trickle some electrons into TX ?
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RTH10260 wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:37 pm Question: would the other main US electric grid even have reserve capacities this time of the year to trickle some electrons into TX ?
Kevin mentioned above your comment that his employer in Michigan sold some reserve capacity to a non-ERCOT provider in Michigan, so I think that answer is probably yes. Actually, temps in my neck of the woods are down in the upper 70s to low 80s so we probably have extra capacity as well.
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tek wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 3:59 pm "no market solution available"

Nobody could have predicted this. /s
Sure they could, Enron traders designed it to happen this way. Exactly this way.
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W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:40 pm Meanwhile, my employer here in Michigan just happily sold some reserve capacity to utilities in east Texas that don't participate in ERCOT.
If ERCOT isn't connected to the national grid, how do those electrons get to Texas?
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keith wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:47 pm
W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:40 pm Meanwhile, my employer here in Michigan just happily sold some reserve capacity to utilities in east Texas that don't participate in ERCOT.
If ERCOT isn't connected to the national grid, how do those electrons get to Texas?
There are utilities in east Texas which don't participate in ERCOT, and those utilities are connected to the national grid.
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Co-workers in Austin are experiencing rolling black-outs. Apparently this is not an entirely uncommon thing there, I am told.
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Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron wrote: ERCOT didn't think this summer would be as hot as it actually is, interim CEO is 'concerned about the future'
I'm trying not to type in all caps. But, JFC! YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE? NOW? THIS HASN'T OCCURRED TO YOU UNTIL NOW?

Heads should be rolling. Years ago.
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raison de arizona wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:15 pm
Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron wrote: ERCOT didn't think this summer would be as hot as it actually is, interim CEO is 'concerned about the future'
I'm trying not to type in all caps. But, JFC! YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE? NOW? THIS HASN'T OCCURRED TO YOU UNTIL NOW?

Heads should be rolling. Years ago.
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Volkonski wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:13 pm
The future is here, and August is suppose to be much hotter than so far.

Wonder if pub voters in Texas will be happy about Abbott and the pubs did nothing over the last year?
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Jim wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:32 pm
The future is here, and August is suppose to be much hotter than so far.

Wonder if pub voters in Texas will be happy about Abbott and the pubs did nothing over the last year?
My prediction? They won't be happy, but they will blame it on teh "green" and definitely not go over to Beto.

But one can hope.
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It's only a matter of time before some idiot complains about windmills stealing all the electricity.
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