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I am South African and absolutely hate load shedding. 2 or 4 hours without electricity every day (when LS is active), often over dinnertime and other times you'

I am South African and absolutely hate load shedding. 2 or 4 hours without electricity every day (when LS is active), often over dinnertime and other times you'd like to use electricity. Makes life much more meh. FWIW I think Texas had rolling blackouts in winter last year, similar to ZA load shedding. Will likely happen again this winter unless they manage to link into other states' grids (IIRC). Would be interesting to see some kind of comparison between the Texas and ZA electricity problems. Undoubtedly also a lot of corruption involved there.

Mountain_Skies 4y ago
It happens in California all the time but you only mention it happening in Texas. Why is that? If you were unaware that it happens in California, why is that?
- the_only_law 4y ago
  This is not relevant to their post. Why is that?
- mousetree 4y ago
  Perhaps because they are South African? As another South African I have heard of blackouts in Texas (and your Ted Cruz going on holiday) but I haven't heard about anything in California (other than the Enron related power shortages).
- lmm 4y ago
  The "wrong" party is in power in Texas, so problems there are far more widely reported.
- staindk 4y ago
  Because it's been in the news I consume, I guess. I saw a diagram like this [1] somewhere, perhaps a John Oliver video. It seems Texas is on their own grid and I think wherever I learned that mentioned that Texas has not been maintaining/upgrading the grid to the degree that they should. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-North-American-electricity-interconnections-Image-is-from_fig1_283018221 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-North-America...
- truffdog 4y ago
  I mean, it happened in 2019 with the big wildfires, and it happened when Gray Davis was governor in like... 2003? It's not really a regular thing.
pram 4y ago
The power went out because there was a major snow storm across the south, which doesn't happen often. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13–17,_2021_North_American_winter_storm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13–17,_2021_North_Ame... It affected more than just Texas lol

Mountain_Skies 4y ago

It happens in California all the time but you only mention it happening in Texas. Why is that? If you were unaware that it happens in California, why is that?

the_only_law 4y ago
This is not relevant to their post. Why is that?
mousetree 4y ago
Perhaps because they are South African? As another South African I have heard of blackouts in Texas (and your Ted Cruz going on holiday) but I haven't heard about anything in California (other than the Enron related power shortages).
lmm 4y ago
The "wrong" party is in power in Texas, so problems there are far more widely reported.
staindk 4y ago
Because it's been in the news I consume, I guess. I saw a diagram like this [1] somewhere, perhaps a John Oliver video. It seems Texas is on their own grid and I think wherever I learned that mentioned that Texas has not been maintaining/upgrading the grid to the degree that they should. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-North-American-electricity-interconnections-Image-is-from_fig1_283018221 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-North-America...
truffdog 4y ago
I mean, it happened in 2019 with the big wildfires, and it happened when Gray Davis was governor in like... 2003? It's not really a regular thing.

pram 4y ago

The power went out because there was a major snow storm across the south, which doesn't happen often. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13–17,_2021_North_American_winter_storm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13–17,_2021_North_Ame... It affected more than just Texas lol