#Grid

Mary Anne Hitt

maryannehitt

A thread on the recent extreme weather and power outages. @SierraClub at this time is most concerned about the safety of our colleagues, friends, and families as harsh weather continues

Talking Tesla

talkingtesla

The Texas issue is multifactorial. The grid system is not tied to any other state. They are definitely the lone star state tho surprisingly they are tied to Mexico's grid.

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

A case of the '#SouthAfrica' variant has been detected in the UK. There's also talk about a 501Y mutation in Wales.It's getting confusing!First: all 3 of these 501Y mutations are

Maggie Koerth

maggiekb1

I've been seeing a lot of tweets blaming Texas blackouts on wind power. Minnesota's wind turbines operate down to about -20. We've had to turn them off before when it

Chuck DeVore

ChuckDeVore

Much misinformation out there about #Texaspoweroutage, @ERCOT_ISO, wind and solar power, and thermal generators (gas and coal). Let's review what we think we know right now. @TPPF @Life_Powered_ 1/10 Two

Shannon Coulter

shannoncoulter

PSA: solar and wind power actually help to prevent rolling blackouts by feeding excess energy back into the grid, thereby reducing reliance on the grid. This points to another very

Lauri Myllyvirta

laurimyllyvirta

South Africa's power grid has long been in a deadlock of extremely unreliable and polluting power, corruption and pro-coal special interests that kneecap the entire economy. Now a utility death

Ed Burgess

eburgess

1/The rotating power outages from the @California_ISO Stage 3 emergencies on Friday and Saturday are bad news! I wanted to share a strange thing that happened with my newly installed

Zach

Zacharyjames86

The following message was sent to me from a friend. ITS TEXAS! Something is not sitting right with me with Texas and it’s .. not just the weather. I mean

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

The latest S:N501 focal build is now up, with data from 28th Dec:We can see new sequences from Italy, Israel, Spain, France, & Ireland in the SE England variant (501Y.V1)

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

How it started. How it’s going.Maybe Texas leaders & @ERCOT_ISO should learn that for power grids, “sharing is caring”. #texaspoweroutage 2) Most of the electric

Costa Samaras

CostaSamaras

what's weird is that it's taken this long for utilities, who sell electricity and have seen demand be mostly flat for a decade or more, to finally look at transportation,

Matt Smith

MatchasmMatt

1/ This is a very interesting post from Tesla's Director of Engineering and Construction for Energy. Microgrids are small isolated areas of the grid usually in very rural areas for

Bagholder Bear

Dystopia2100

Hello #Uranium bulls. Mini thread: You probably won't read about this where you live, at least not yet, but Sweden is currently on the brink of power grid failure since

Jonathan Koomey

jgkoomey

OK #EnergyTwitter hive mind, let's see if you can help me find the right reference. Power systems are moving toward an end state in which all or nearly all of

Simon Mavi Stewart

shs96c

We missed Chinese New Year by a few days, but I'm happy to announce that we've just shipped #selenium4 beta 1!If you've been waiting for the update from Se3, this

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