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Depends if winterization keeps you at 100% output during cold weather. It might, but I don't know enough about the subject to say for sure.
by azernik 6y ago
Depends if winterization keeps you at 100% output during cold weather. It might, but I don't know enough about the subject to say for sure.
- gwoplock 6y agoFrom what I've seen, you cannot keep 100% of generation online. However, in a properly designed and winter weatherized system stations should be able to come online to pick up the slack. In the reports I've seen this seems to be a high rate of failure point leading to the issues seen in Texas this week.
- Rapzid 6y agoWe didn't need 100%. We needed to not be without power for days. The "rolling blackouts" turned into myself and others were basically sacrificed for the grid because the load shed requirements were too high to roll.
- usefulcat 6y agoWe don't necessarily need 100%, just enough to allow rolling blackouts to even be an option. In Austin, they had to turn off power to ~40% of all customers pretty much as soon as the shortage began. Once they had done that, they could not implement rolling blackouts without also affecting critical infrastructure like hospitals (the granularity of the electrical grid is finite, apparently). The result was that some people had power the whole time (or nearly so), and others had nothing for ~3 days straight. Obviously it would be preferable for everyone to have intermittent power 1/N of the time than for 1/N to have nothing at all for the duration of the shortfall.