Dumb question from an idiot accountant....
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Apparently not. Because they are 'independent', they don't have to pay some tax/fee to be part of the national grid. This is by their choosing.
I understand, but could they not tap into it now in this emergency? Or is the grid not set up this way.
My brother in Houston said 'nope'. Apparent that TX thought this was never going to happen. Mistake.
Texas never thought wind turbines would get so cold that they would freeze up? Who predicted that - anyone?
We've got a 200 unit wind farm 30 miles north of me that spin away 12 months of the year and I live in upstate NY.
Alaska has wind turbines that don't freeze up. Most of the country does. And natural gas infrastructure. El Paso apparently predicted it and weatherized their equipment years ago. Texas can get in to the blame game when they want, that wasn't the point of this thread. Legit wanna know if the rest of us could help them out until their grid thawed out.
Yes, there is a physical link between the Texas grid and the national grid. I have no idea what the logistical or legal parameters are for closing that breaker and connecting the two.
They can but it is not as easy as it is for most states continuously on the grid.
There would be a surge if the two grids are not at the same capacity. So it becomes an issue.
Near Lake Erie, right? No wonder that you're so miserable. It snows there about six months a year.
The dingbats in Michigan don't seem to think so, but once they stop the trains and barges full of coal from moving this way, they'll regret it.
Lake Ontario. Actually, I love snow and cross country ski 3-4 days a week. Going ice fish this weekend.
I don’t either. Electricity scares me. It’s working are as foreign to me as a woman’s clitoris.
How many animals are killed every year from massive ice chards spewn from these? Wind energy is a damn joke.
My parents owned a vacation house in Kendall right on Lake Ontario in the 1990s. They never saw the Sun in the handful of years that they owned the house, and some imbecile installed a heat pump there. Nothing more fun than waking up at 4:00 a.m. to clear a foot of snow off of the heat pump.
Funny thing, if you talk to a lot of accountants, where accounting wasn't their first degree choice, more often than not you'll find they started out in engineering. Me, I'm pure accountant. Started it my sophomore year of high school and carried it through to college.
Way more than the reward. The power provided by a windmill is laughably low.
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They have a deicing agent built onto the windmill. The design also make it more likely ice is shed by the windmill turning.
Interesting analysis piece on the Texas situation from a transmission and distribution Trade publication......which I received from my best buddy (who's a career high-voltage guy working with utilities).
