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You might want to check with your neighbors to the west and southwest. The Southwest Power Pool which covers most of the Dakotas and by eyeball 2/5ths of Iowa
by Throwawayaerlei 6y ago
You might want to check with your neighbors to the west and southwest. The Southwest Power Pool which covers most of the Dakotas and by eyeball 2/5ths of Iowa has not had a fun time starting Monday 10:08 am https://spp.org/markets-operations/current-grid-conditions/ https://spp.org/markets-operations/current-grid-conditions/
I can report from further south of those states we've had rolling blackouts at times, although they didn't hit me personally. We've also move one level down in Energy Emergency Alerts each of yesterday and today shortly after 6 pm, another neither of those to Level 3 where you must shed residential loads.
- maxerickson 6y agoThere's a difference between not having enough generation to meet extreme load and having 35 gigawatts of power drop out of service. It's also clearly that case that lots of operators are able to run reliably in extreme cold weather (of course they do that because it's a fact of life and not because of weatherization regulations).
- Throwawayaerlei 6y agoIt's not quite a national issue. There have not been regional issues in the Midwest, despite it being considerably colder than Texas, for longer....
- maxerickson 6y agoA rolling blackout in Iowa isn't a regional issue in the Midwest.
- Throwawayaerlei 6y agoRolling blackouts throughout the Southwest Power Pool (SPP https://spp.org/ https://spp.org/) are very much a regional issue in the middle of the country. I'm using that qualification to avoid your insisting you're still correct because the SPP is mostly to the immediate west of the Midwest; I wonder what you'll come up with next....
- maxerickson 6y agoI'm insisting I disagree with you. A massive loss of capacity is a different problem than a short term shortage due to high demand.