, needs to be reformed. He said he will make it a legislative priority to set aside money to protect the grid from future weather events.ERCOT CEO Bill Magness said that while his organization is taking much of the blame for the rolling blackouts last week, they had no other choice to protect the grid from worse damage that would have taken longer to fix.
Jeff Dagle, chief electrical engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, said the Texas grid is unique in that its contained within the state, compared to the two national grids that cross state lines. He said Texas decided to keep it that way decades ago partly to avoid federal regulations on energy transmission. He added that normally the state produces enough energy to sustain itself, but being isolated also means they can't pull power from other states during a big storm.
"When you really adopt kind of a big focus on resilience, you do want to sort of think outside the box, and you don't want to design just to the worst that you've seen, you want the design to go beyond that," he said."And I do think that they probably had a lack of imagination in terms of how severe it could get and are we really prepared for that."
"But these mitigations are going to cost money, too," Dagle added."And so who's asking for these resilience enhancing measures, and are they really wanting to pay for it? And I think those are the deeper questions that we have to grapple with."
Great! “Cowboy up, El Paso!”
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Obviously, El Paso did the competent thing! Too bad the rest of Texas was too cheap to do that. Paying the price now.
Screw your politics. Learn from this. Regardless of who’s idea it is. Figure out what works. Improve so it NEVER happens again. No one wants to keep bailing you out.
The Republican Governor of Texas didn’t. Vote Beto Democrat 💙
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I moved to El Paso right before that storm in 2011 from Kansas. The cold destroyed the transformers. It was a mess for about a week, but not too bad. I’ve since left, but glad to know that they learned the lesson of winterizing.
Fine. So why did this happen?😡😷🏴🇨🇦
SOMEBODY in Texas learns from their mistakes.
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