I've seen it blamed on storms and blamed on an "induced atmospheric variation" but I'm taking it all with a grain of salt right now. Everything is so damn censored and political now.
As for Texas, people were so triggered and tried so much to politicize the near-state-wide-outage, that to this day almost every time ERCOT posts something on Twitter, people remind them of their failure or try to inject something about Gov. Abbott or bad orange man being at fault for everything down to squirrels chewing on wires.
Probably not. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ Solar flux and geomagnetics have all been pretty normal for the past day.
As for Texas
Cascading failure. You need power to compress natural gas, you need natural gas to generate power. You have very little import capacity from surrounding grids and green energy was not able to keep up to it's rated specifications in that weather.
It's like any large system where tons of redundancy is built in. To get a visible system wide failure you need several layers to all fail or underperform enough at once.
I've seen it blamed on storms and blamed on an "induced atmospheric variation" but I'm taking it all with a grain of salt right now. Everything is so damn censored and political now.
As for Texas, people were so triggered and tried so much to politicize the near-state-wide-outage, that to this day almost every time ERCOT posts something on Twitter, people remind them of their failure or try to inject something about Gov. Abbott or bad orange man being at fault for everything down to squirrels chewing on wires.
So the thing the UK is attempting to do on purpose? 🤔
Let's blot out the sun. That will surely increase the energy output of our solar panels!
Probably not. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ Solar flux and geomagnetics have all been pretty normal for the past day.
Cascading failure. You need power to compress natural gas, you need natural gas to generate power. You have very little import capacity from surrounding grids and green energy was not able to keep up to it's rated specifications in that weather.
It's like any large system where tons of redundancy is built in. To get a visible system wide failure you need several layers to all fail or underperform enough at once.
ERCOT cartel needs to be dismantled.