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State's Rights! Free Market! Independent! Power Grid!

Journal by DeathMonkey

Boy, that power grind in TX they refused to connect to the national grid because they didn't like all those regulations and that is wholly owned by a private corporation is operating swimmingly this week!

Good thing those those nanny state experts didn't force them to adequately maintain that grid! And it's definitely great that they're unable to import power from, say, Florida right now!

Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago
Libertarian paradise!

“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd, previously mayor of Colorado City, Texas wrote Tuesday in a Facebook post. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
Yeah, fuck you and your family! Bootstraps motherfucker, have you heard of them!?!?!?!

The Texas power grid failed mostly due to natural gas. Republicans are blaming wind turbines.
Pass that buck like a true Patriot!

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2021, @11:27PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2021, @11:27PM (#1114210)

    Texas has high-voltage DC links to other grids. What is missing is AC connections, so the clock is independent.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @12:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @12:54AM (#1114245)

    ...except they cant, because they explicitly are not allowed to unless they follow the FEDERAL regulations.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @08:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @08:06AM (#1114386)

    It turns out that nearby grids are also overstressed due to the weather. They are transferring some power, but also saying "no" because they don't want to collapse. Oklahoma is at risk of going down, and that could cascade outward... and holy shit we lose half the USA.

    There are also 3 DC links to Mexico, good for about 200 megawatts. It's not a lot, and Mexico is probably cold too.