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They blackout neighborhoods here I believe. My guess is that neighborhoods that largely heat with natural gas are spared, as they don't use a ton of electricity
by milofeynman 6y ago
They blackout neighborhoods here I believe. My guess is that neighborhoods that largely heat with natural gas are spared, as they don't use a ton of electricity.
- bombcar 6y agoThat makes sense - if you're going to blackout you want to start with the "highest loads" (perhaps per capita? per household?) so as to reduce the number of blackouts you have to cause. Better 10k people lose power than 50k. Though if 60% of Texas homes are electric heat then you have to consider that, too, and how long it takes a 60º house to get to 40 (any lower and you begin to risk health and water damage). I assume they'd roll the blackouts and no neighborhood would be without power for more than a few hours.
- bombcar 6y agoAh, looking at the EEA 3 alert: http://www.ercot.com/eea_info/show/26464 http://www.ercot.com/eea_info/show/26464 In these situations, each utility is required to lower the demand on its system based on its percentage of the historic ERCOT peak demand. While each utility is responsible for determining how to implement the required demand reduction, most utilities use rotating outages for this purpose. Rotating outages primarily affect residential neighborhoods and small businesses and are typically limited to 10 to 45 minutes before being rotated to another location.