Gov. Abbott has a(n) habit/obsession of blaming everyone else for his failure to lead. For example,
http://www.texasaft.org/policy/funding/fact-check-is-everyone-except-gov-abbott-to-blame-for-public-schools-budget-crises/
"Cecilia [Abbott] and I send our prayers and deepest condolences to First Lady Rosalynn Carter and the entire Carter family."
After pointing out to the Governor that Mrs. Carter died over a year ago, it became
"Cecilia [Abbott] and I send our prayers and deepest condolences to the entire Carter family."
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Deep in the heart of Texas, their government is in their own world, just like their electrical grid. Recall the massive power failure of 2021.
…Americans are fleeing New York and California and flocking to Florida and Texas.
By the way, infrastructure like the electrical grid is expensive. So do you buy the Rolls Royce of electrical grids, or do you buy the grid that works for your location 99.9% of the time?
The Texas power grid was not interconnected to adjacent power grids for backup protection, except for the El Paso system, which was, and it survived the outage quite well. End of story.
from this and made the appropriate corrections, just like Mayor Adams learned from Biden's open borders and now wants to work with Trump to correct that problem. People want responsive government. Problems are inevitable, but failure to fix them is unforgiveable. The "end of story" is that Texas fixed the problem over the ensuing couple of years.
And the rest of the story is that the federal [Biden] government responded . . .
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"AUSTIN, Texas — Texas could get a boost in voltage after the Biden administration announced a new grant to help connect the Texas power grid to the national grid.
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On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1.5 billion in electric grid investments across the country.
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Part of that announcement included up to $360 million in federal funding for the construction of a 320-mile high-voltage power line that would connect Texas’ grid to power grids in the southeastern U.S. The line will run across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi."
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http://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2024/10/04/texas--grid-is-closer-to-being-connected-to-the-u-s--grid
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…put it at the bottom of the message post, or you can post it in the body of the message, but you must manually remove the “s” in “https”.
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I don't know from where you get your information, but the problem is NOT fixed . . .
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"The project [to connect Texas to the national power grid] is scheduled to roll out in phases, with the initial stages focusing on planning and infrastructure development. Construction of the new transmission lines is expected to begin in 2025, with an estimated completion date of 2030."
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https://electricityrates.com/how-to-compare/energy-choice-blog/ercot-connection-to-us-grid/
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"According to a new study by WalletHub, Texas gets far more money from the federal government than it sends in taxes."
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"The fact that red states are more federally dependent than blue states is a well established economic fact. The WalletHub story shows that red states are almost 50 percent more likely on average to need more federal money than they put in."
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"This is often related to threadbare social safety nets in red states, leaving the federal government to pick up the slack in areas like healthcare."
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http://www.reformaustin.org/texas/texas-more-dependent-on-federal-money-than-other-states/
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When none exists. The USA and Canada is on multiple power grids, some of which goes across the border with the USA and Canada. 
I took their use of the term "national" to mean the collection of interconnected regional power grids, forming a virtual national grid, where A can borrow/buy from B, which can borrow/buy from C as needed, with the exception of standalone ERCOT.
Admittedly, this gets more into the weeds than I have direct knowledge of, but I’m not sure any grid can borrow from another. If you watch the vid I posted, power grids have to have very careful control over the grid. Your power demand is your load. Power has to be generated in real time, and as the load changes, so does the Mains frequency. The frequency variation is how they can determine the overall load. If it drops from 60Hz to 59.4Hz than the entire power grid infrastructure can be damaged. As in the generators can get destroyed. If different grids get connected they could have no control over the load.
That’s not to say that different grids have subgrids that can reroute power if something fails. But I don’t think they can route power between grids.
Some states have their own grids. Florida, New York, Hawaii, and Texas. I think Southern California has something separate as well.
Texas has a very diverse power generation portfolio, but every generation method struggled in this weather event. Solar failed because of snow covered solar panels. Wind power failed because turbines froze. Their one nuclear plant went off line because cooling water supplies froze. Natural gas failed because there’s water in natural gas which ended up blocking supplies.
There are technical and practical limitations in engineering. Sometimes shit just happens.
Here's just a bit of what Wikipedia said about the Texas grid and interconnection:
"State officials, including Republican governor Greg Abbott,
initially blamed[14] the outages on frozen wind turbines and solar panels. Data showed that failure to winterize power sources, principally natural gas infrastructure but also to a lesser extent wind turbines, had caused the grid failure,[15][16] with a drop in power production from natural gas more than five times greater than that from wind turbines. Texas's power grid has long been separate from the two major national grids to avoid federal oversight, though it is still connected to the other national grids and Mexico's;[17] the limited number of ties made it difficult for the state to import electricity from other states during the crisis.[18] Deregulation of its electricity market beginning in the 1990s resulted in competition in wholesale electricity prices, but also cost cutting for contingency preparation.[18]"
Gov. Abbott has a(n) habit/obsession of blaming everyone else for his failure to lead. For example,
http://www.texasaft.org/policy/funding/fact-check-is-everyone-except-gov-abbott-to-blame-for-public-schools-budget-crises/
This is the same problem we had during Covid of idiot journalists trying to "fact check" scientists. The outage effected every single form of energy production. No production method was spared. Natural gas is the primary source of energy for Texas, but why would you need to go through the expense to winterize the whole damn system in a state that only sees snowfall once every 50 years? You don't think there's a trade off with winterizing natural gas pipelines when the state is hotter than balls most of the year? What will the winterizing material do in 110 degree summer heat? Really? That's why Texas power grid is separate? To avoid federal oversight? Or could there be engineering issues involved? Fools like to use instances like this to score cheap political points, but does anyone remember the 2003 blackout that resulted in the entire NE USA and parts of Canada to lose power? It was the biggest outage in North American history, and it was all caused by a problem that cascaded due to a tree falling over. Like I said, shit happens.
when he doesn't like what an article says he smears the source, but makes no effort to disprove it on the facts. Yes, the "outage AFFECTED every single form of energy production." But NOT EQUALLY, you dunce.
I cited a civil engineer who broke down the power grid failure minute by minute and you site some midwit political bloviations on wikipedia. Why not quote Peewee Herman instead of Einstein on the meaning of General Relativity? The only thing that could have prevented this is if Texas generated all their electricity from coal.
"effect" and "affect."
Dunce.
"Admittedly, this gets more into the weeds than I have direct knowledge of, but I’m not sure any grid can borrow from another. ... " - Not borrow, but PURCHASE: ENRON.
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Some time in the 1990s I believe, a mid-level worker bee at Enron was managing energy sales / distribution between grids. He wondered, ~If I shut down CA's access to Path-#, can I force them to pay more to buy electricity from Path-##? Yes, he could! And the deliberate expansion of that manipulation program led to energy crises in California, forcing end users (little old ladies, small businesses, mongers and Providers) to have to pay a lot more for electricity at Enron's whim. Enron earned BILLIONS of dollars on the transactions.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%932001_California_electricity_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room_(book)
and many, many more sources.
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CA IMPORTS ~30% to 38% of its energy from other grids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California
Admittedly, this gets more into the weeds than I have direct knowledge of, but I’m not sure any grid can borrow from another. If you watch the vid I posted, power grids have to have very careful control over the grid. Your power demand is your load. Power has to be generated in real time, and as the load changes, so does the Mains frequency. The frequency variation is how they can determine the overall load. If it drops from 60Hz to 59.4Hz than the entire power grid infrastructure can be damaged. As in the generators can get destroyed. If different grids get connected they could have no control over the load.
That’s not to say that different grids have subgrids that can reroute power if something fails. But I don’t think they can route power between grids.
Some states have their own grids. Florida, New York, Hawaii, and Texas. I think Southern California has something separate as well.
Texas has a very diverse power generation portfolio, but every generation method struggled in this weather event. Solar failed because of snow covered solar panels. Wind power failed because turbines froze. Their one nuclear plant went off line because cooling water supplies froze. Natural gas failed because there’s water in natural gas which ended up blocking supplies.
There are technical and practical limitations in engineering. Sometimes shit just happens.
"Texas governments have often tried to downplay the reliance on federal funds to improve the economic situation of the state. Governor Greg Abbott, in particular, has a habit of celebrating massive new projects worth billions of dollars without giving credit to the federal programs that made those projects possible. In 2022, Abbott cheered the started [sic] of new hydrogen fuel projects in the state without crediting President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act as the reason the project had enough capital to start in the first place." - Excerpt from http://www.reformaustin.org/texas/texas-more-dependent-on-federal-money-than-other-states/
They vote against new capital spending bills then show up at the local ribbon-cutting of a new bridge to take credit for it.
Republicunts are sleaze-bags.
As property tax and housing cost continues to skyrskyrocket. Yet still, some of the old racists bigots down there continue to votes for him, because he is an antiblack racist.
He ran for president on the back of DEI,Affirmative action, and Woke and dropped out miserably .Now he is kissing the orange man"s ass for a place in the white house cabinet. The Orange man should give him a job in the out house.