#ERCOT

Marty Hopkins

MartyATX

Was going to try to lay out in non-technical language why our power went out early Monday & stayed off for those trying to decipher tweets/news, but w/o internet, I

static

kidstatic

I don't think people understand how large a fuck up the #TexasBlackout is. Too many are talking about how this is freak weather and it was unforseen. It wasn't. It

Alex Epstein

AlexEpstein

The head of the main oil/gas regulator in TX has released a statement confirming my analysis that "the root cause of the TX blackouts is a national and state policy

Dr. NerdLove

DrNerdLove

So after 75 hours and change I've got power back. And hooo man, that is one huge hit of serotonin. Now to be clear: I'm very privileged. I still had

Cate Eland

RomancingNope

There are 5x more people without power in Texas than there are in every other state put together. (You can flip to another view on https://poweroutage.us/ which confirms this, since

planefag

planefag

Awful lot of bullshit flying around the internet about how Texas's power system works. It's definitely unique in America.Texas runs its own grid, so it's the only state in the

Gomes

GomesBolt

Ok. Opening up, Full disclosure, I am in the solar industry. I have built about $1.5B of wind, and I spent 5 years doing transmission development in ERCOT.My transmission experience

Jigar Shah 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

JigarShahDC

Glad to see them tackle Demand Response but very frustrating that they "both sided" the conversation @shaylekann @EltaKo7 https://twitter.com/Stphn_Lacey/status/1302973140474253320 It wasn't until 19 min into the conversation

(((Noel Maurer)))

noel_maurer

Renewable are not to blame for the blackouts in Texas A lot of people on Twitter are posting this chart to somehow pin responsibility for the Texas outages on a

@DRJessieNYC

JessieNYC

Sure, of course. The problem we have in the U.S. is that white people won't support anything "public" if it benefits Black and Brown people.https://twitter.com/SchlFinance101/status/1362400427267026945 Further, white people ar

Nickolas Means

nmeans

Don’t let @GovAbbott shift blame to ERCOT. Their communication has been bad, and their winter worst-case scenario predictions weren’t nearly dire enough, but they also saved us from a much

Jacob Mays

jacob_mays

As we root for everyone to make it through the extremely challenging conditions today, there's clearly a temptation in my feed to figure out what the last few days means

Amal Ahmed

amalahmed214

Thinking about how this crisis is so inequitable. When ercot was begging y'all to turn thermostats down, they were not talking about low income folks living in small, poorly insulated

Amanda Quraishi

ImTheQ

I don’t understand how the energy use in Texas right now could be so any high that it could jeopardize the entire grid - in contrast with the middle of

Liam Kent 🦞

l___kent

Natural Gas lines are unable to keep pressurized due to lack of insulation & winterization. Nuclear Power plants are shutting down b/c the cooling ponds are freezing & don't have

Ag Competitiveness 🇺🇸

CompetitiveAg

OK. I have seen a lot of attempted dunking on Texas...red state bad, bad government, etc...because of the electricity issue in this record cold. So, I am going to do

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