Ercot said be ready tonight guys... power outages could occurr from the winter storms... backups 
-
Welcome back Guest!MARSH is a private reefing group. Comments and suggestions are encouraged, but please keep them positive and constructive. Negative threads, posts, or attacks will be removed from view and reviewed by the staff. Continually disruptive, argumentative, or flagrant rule breakers may be suspended or banned.
Ercot (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter BigRick
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Users who are viewing this thread
OP
OP
ERCOT says power conservation request 'has ended without the need for an energy emergency'
A few hours after ERCOT asked Texans to conserve power to avoid an "energy emergency," the group says the request is now over.
They really need to get their "act" together
TX_Punisher
Supporting Member
Smells a lot like a scandemic combined with some artificial Enron market manipulation.
OP
OP
Raise market prices.... either way it just shows we are gonna be paying a lot for power generation in years to come. Should did it 10 years ago but really really looking to be off grid for most the time but the operators are raising prices just to be connected to the grid.. hence you supply them with power and they charge you for it.
Well this year is getting off to a great start.
Year's more than 1/4 over... Don't know if that makes it better or worse...
Kinda makes me glad to be in Montgomery county, not under ERCOT.
OP
OP
Worse... I went to HEB. Milk is now 3.09... what happened to $2.29. Housing market up cause lumber prices up 163% since covid.. 5 dolla gasoline coming for Christmas. I mean General Motors said something like 34 new ev's by 2025? Umm 34 new evs in 4 yrs!!! Ummm Im waiting for the market to really explode/implode... crypto... yada yada....
Cody
Vice President
Staff member
Administrator
Moderator
Content Moderator
Board Member
Supporting Member
Yeah but you’re forgetting those sweet, sweet profits. Preventative measures cost money. Redundancy costs money. Having more supply than demand costs money. Cant have that none sense. It’s all about that sweet, sweet efficiency.
Cody
Vice President
Staff member
Administrator
Moderator
Content Moderator
Board Member
Supporting Member
Side note, what does any regular storm passing through have to do with our ability to get electricity? It’s not like this is a hurricane.
Apparently the demand is higher than they forecasted and they let a lot of generation go offline for maintenance and repairs. Clearly the magic 8 ball they use for forecasting is broken and they need a new one.
OP
OP
Its maintenance season cause of the freeze for NG so a lot are offline...
OP
OP
I thought all Texas counties are under ercot, they're providers atleast. Until someone builds their own grid
News showed a map a few times, there are some in north Texas and some northeast of Galveston that are on other grids. Found this one, but I think there are better ones.
OP
OP
I believe west Texas and north Texas are plugged into New Mexico nuclear andNews showed a map a few times, there are some in north Texas and some northeast of Galveston that are on other grids. Found this one, but I think there are better ones.
Mexico grids as well as eastern Texas hooked up to gulf states nuclear facilities. The worst thing is to have have one county make their own grid. Your prices would be sky high...Hence was told from someone in Magnolia that there is only one NG provider now so you have zero choice on choosing providers for price... bill went from 10 to over 120 per month.... us minions have to pay for the infrastructure.
Smaller grids also have less momentum and are less stable. When you run a tiny generator and kick something on that doubles the load you get that huge dip in output since the engine just does not have the momentum to carry on until gas increases. Larger generators and more connected the larger the spikes the grid can handle without big fluctuations.
I don't trust the for profit companies to fix the issues before the next storm so I ordered solar and tesla power walls. Once it is fully installed I plan on starting a thread to go over the process and share results and what have you for people. Figure a reefer in the same area sharing power generation and backup capabilities would be something people would want even if they are not interested in getting solar. Get some first hand data on what power generation someone here actually gets. Might do an off grid test or two in order to figure out tank backup time as well. Not the calculated backup time, but real life tested backup time.
I don't trust the for profit companies to fix the issues before the next storm so I ordered solar and tesla power walls. Once it is fully installed I plan on starting a thread to go over the process and share results and what have you for people. Figure a reefer in the same area sharing power generation and backup capabilities would be something people would want even if they are not interested in getting solar. Get some first hand data on what power generation someone here actually gets. Might do an off grid test or two in order to figure out tank backup time as well. Not the calculated backup time, but real life tested backup time.
OP
OP
Yup tesla roof and 5 battery's and 100 gallon propane back up genny on list. Getting it installed in time is the problem. Especially that Tesla power walls sky rocketed in pricing. You can't buy them seperate anymore.
