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I liked this analysis. The one item that is glossed over is that if the Texas power grid was connected to the rest of the United States, then additional supply
by d_e_solomon 6y ago
I liked this analysis. The one item that is glossed over is that if the Texas power grid was connected to the rest of the United States, then additional supply could be purchased from outside Texas. That would keep the lights on as energy usage doesn't spike across the entire United States all at once.
Since politicians in Texas chose to keep the electric grid separate, the wide spread outages are much more likely to happen. I thought the analysis on voters having wrong incentives was interesting, but also really lacked any type of solution.
- 7thaccount 6y agoI've answered this in other threads on here. Yes and No. There wasn't much power to give from other areas. So even if they had more transfer capability, nobody had much capacity to give.
- CamTin 6y agoThis is the main lesson we've learned in Texas this week. Why go it alone? We're asking for help from the rest of the country anyway (Federal emergency funds, etc). If we'd just played nice to start with we wouldn't be in this kind of trouble at all.
- avs733 6y agothe analysis is bluntly false for several reasons, starting with really bad strawmen. I'm trying to coherently put together a post with links explaining just how bad it is because of the utter lack of technical knowledge the author displays.