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The gas station analogy is a bad analogy -- understand that demand and supply are being balanced real time on the grid. That is not same with a Gas station or a
by sremani 5y ago
The gas station analogy is a bad analogy -- understand that demand and supply are being balanced real time on the grid. That is not same with a Gas station or a group of gas stations.
A bit more sophisticated thinking is required here -- if you want people to maintain over-capacity, you either pay them during the good times or pay them during the bad times.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoThe grid went down due to temperatures across the state. That's not a capacity issue, that's a hardening issue. Capacity is having hot spares in a SAN or whatever. But those extra drives won't help you when your RAID array decides to up and die on you which is what happened here.