{"id":49772,"date":"2021-11-28T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49772"},"modified":"2021-11-28T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T00:56:10","slug":"why-cant-they-fix-this-electrical-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49772","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t they fix this electrical grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49773\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39-300x201.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39-300x201.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39-1024x686.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39-768x515.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Tribune has written a story with a frightening lead paragraph, which states &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Electricity outages in Texas could occur this winter if the state experiences a cold snap that forces many power plants offline at the same time as demand for power is high,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ercot.com\/files\/docs\/2021\/11\/19\/SARA_Winter2021-22.pdf\">according to an analysis by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas<\/a>. The outages could occur despite better preparations by power plants to operate in cold weather.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What the hell? I thought the Texas Legislature was going to repair those problems, that it was going to &#8220;invest&#8221; lots of money to ensure that ERCOT&#8217;s electrical system was winterized sufficiently to protect us against the misery that befell us this past February.<\/p>\n<p>I am one Texas resident &#8212; who I am sure speaks for millions of others &#8212; who does not want to endure what we went through early this year. Our homes went dark. Many of our water pipes froze. Our water supply went down for a time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/11\/20\/texas-grid-ercot-winter-estimates\/\">ERCOT estimates show Texas grid vulnerable this winter, despite preparations | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not going to predict we&#8217;ll have sub-zero temperatures again this winter. I saw a forecast that suggested the La Nina current is going to create a warmer, drier winter for Texas in 2021-22. I hope it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>If it isn&#8217;t, then that Legislature of ours ought to have hell to pay if ERCOT&#8217;s grid shuts down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Tribune has written a story with a frightening lead paragraph, which states &#8230; Electricity outages in Texas could occur this winter if the state experiences a cold snap that forces many power plants offline at the same time as demand for power is high,\u00a0according to an analysis by the Electric Reliability Council of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why can&#8217;t they fix this electrical grid?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[1611,4653],"class_list":["post-49772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-ercot","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49774,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49772\/revisions\/49774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}