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according to "RRC", which I guess is TX's regulatory commission for energy, winterizing is being done aggressively[1], as of Jan '22: >About 98% of the facilit

according to "RRC", which I guess is TX's regulatory commission for energy, winterizing is being done aggressively[1], as of Jan '22: >About 98% of the facilities visited had been winterized. The remaining 2% or so were in the process of winterizing at the time when RRC visited them in the last few months. [1]https://www.rrc.texas.gov/news/011922-natural-gas-winterization/ https://www.rrc.texas.gov/news/011922-natural-gas-winterizat...

vel0city 3y ago
RRC = Railroad Commission, which is the top level of government in charge of a lot of energy things.
- pests 3y ago
  Plot line in the show The Son starting Piercce Brosnan. A plot line in loved getting a family member appointed to the railroad commission to control oil distribution.
fbdab103 3y ago
Not sure I take the RRC's word for things. Of the new winterization standards, gas suppliers did not have requirements to do anything. From [0] >Analyses after Uri revealed that a lack of winterization in the electric and gas sectors was a critical cause of systemwide failure. The Texas legislature enacted new winterization requirements for electricity generators. But it did not do the same for natural gas producers, which provide fuel to about 40% of Texas power plants and weren’t able to deliver during the storm. > Since then, Texas saw significant drops in natural gas production during winter cold snaps in January and February 2022. As happened during Uri, production at many gas wells was halted because water and other liquids that come to the surface with the natural gas froze when they hit a frozen wellhead, creating an ice dam and stopping the flow of gas into pipelines. >...(jumping to 2022 Christmas cold snap) >Additionally, Texas natural gas production is estimated to have fallen by almost 20 percent on Dec. 23 from the week before, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. [0] https://theconversation.com/two-years-after-its-historic-deep-freeze-texas-is-increasingly-vulnerable-to-cold-snaps-and-there-are-more-solutions-than-just-building-power-plants-198494 https://theconversation.com/two-years-after-its-historic-dee...

vel0city 3y ago

RRC = Railroad Commission, which is the top level of government in charge of a lot of energy things.

pests 3y ago
Plot line in the show The Son starting Piercce Brosnan. A plot line in loved getting a family member appointed to the railroad commission to control oil distribution.

fbdab103 3y ago

Not sure I take the RRC's word for things. Of the new winterization standards, gas suppliers did not have requirements to do anything. From [0] >Analyses after Uri revealed that a lack of winterization in the electric and gas sectors was a critical cause of systemwide failure. The Texas legislature enacted new winterization requirements for electricity generators. But it did not do the same for natural gas producers, which provide fuel to about 40% of Texas power plants and weren’t able to deliver during the storm. > Since then, Texas saw significant drops in natural gas production during winter cold snaps in January and February 2022. As happened during Uri, production at many gas wells was halted because water and other liquids that come to the surface with the natural gas froze when they hit a frozen wellhead, creating an ice dam and stopping the flow of gas into pipelines. >...(jumping to 2022 Christmas cold snap) >Additionally, Texas natural gas production is estimated to have fallen by almost 20 percent on Dec. 23 from the week before, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. [0] https://theconversation.com/two-years-after-its-historic-deep-freeze-texas-is-increasingly-vulnerable-to-cold-snaps-and-there-are-more-solutions-than-just-building-power-plants-198494 https://theconversation.com/two-years-after-its-historic-dee...