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> In reality Texas is about average when it comes to reliability Do you have a source for this? Anecdotally, I felt the need to buy a generator when I lived no
by sgarland 3y ago
> In reality Texas is about average when it comes to reliability
Do you have a source for this? Anecdotally, I felt the need to buy a generator when I lived north of Austin, because outages were frequent enough that it seemed warranted. Since moving to North Carolina (just north of Charlotte), I’ve had exactly one outage in a year, and that was on a mild day, just had some equipment failure.
Never once here have I received notice that I needed to reduce consumption to help the grid.
- vel0city 3y agohttps://www.citizensutilityboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Electric-Utility-Performance-A-State-By-State-Data-Review_final.pdf https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021... Here they rank it 30/50 in reliability and performance metrics. If we're sharing anecdotes, I've never lost power for more than a few seconds in the past decade or so, and before that it was pretty much only because of hurricanes or tornadoes in the area.
- sgarland 3y agoFWIW that's a couple of years old. I'll be interested to see the EIA data for 2022 once they finalize it [0]. [0]: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/ https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/