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It's a transmission problem not an energy problem (this time). There is more than enough energy and generation capacity in the state. It just can't delivered to
by bob1029 2y ago
It's a transmission problem not an energy problem (this time). There is more than enough energy and generation capacity in the state. It just can't delivered to the last mile.
Based upon press releases from Entergy[0] (north of Houston/Centerpoint) a quarter million feet of wires need to be fixed. This doesn't include transformers, logging operations, etc.
I would estimate that Houston itself (Centerpoint) is probably dealing with a million+ feet of damaged transmission lines based upon the stats up here and their reported customer outage #s.
The area I (used to?) live in wont have power until the 14th because of the damage to the distribution infrastructure.
This is 99% a game of trees falling on lines and everything cascading from there.
[0]: https://www.etrviewoutage.com/map?state=TX https://www.etrviewoutage.com/map?state=TX
- vidanay 2y ago250,000 feet of wires isn't very much (480 miles). Are you sure that isn't a quarter million miles?
- cthalupa 2y ago480 miles is quite a lot to repair when it all breaks at once due to a hurricane.
- vel0city 2y agoAnd then to think that's just the Northeast corner of Houston that didn't quite take the full blast of the storm. The South and Southwest are likely worse, we just don't have accurate public maps of the outage. So that 480 miles or so is probably less than a fifth of the total repairs needed.
- vidanay 2y agoI got the impression that OP was referring to total deferred maintenance of transmission lines in the entire Texas grid. If it is only storm related, that that seems more ballpark-accurate.