The Texas Power Grid Struggling Again?

I'm getting too old for this. Becoming an expert on the Texas power grid doesn't seem like much of a hobby for my sunset years.

Texas grid operator urges electricity conservation as many power generators are unexpectedly offline and temperatures rise

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says a large number of power plants are offline, but it could not provide details as to what may be causing the “very concerning” number of outages. At the same time, the state is experiencing near-record demand for electricity in June.

I'm sure the late spring(!) heat wave isn't helping but c'mon - Texas gets hot in the summer is news? Texas gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer and the gird can't handle either?!?

Well. Each morning in my (relative) youth I rode the Metro North commuter rail into the Greatest City in the World. I learned that light rail is the most economical and reliable form of mass transit EVER! Unless it is too hot, too cold, too sunny, too rainy, or there are too many squirrels playing near the tracks. Metro North sort of had the reverse Post Office motto - almost nothing could fail to derail them.

If Texas is going to mess with us and undermine the case for light regulation with their stupid grid problems there will be outrage. Probably not from me, however.

Comments

[rse]

the gird from the post-quote paragraph reminds me of what an overweight relative wore in the 60s to family reunions.

Remember how I keep warning that the phrase School Choice is a red herring and not the hoped for solution. That unesco even refers to it as "non-state actor providers" and loves it?

Here's their affiliate launching a cartoon competition in support today. https://gemreportunesco.wordpress.com/2021/06/15/join-our-cartoon-competition-on-school-choice-launched-in-partnership-with-the-cartoon-movement/

Told you it was part of the planned pincer action.

[rse]

This virtual summit tomorrow may interest some of you who also track the Left's plans for us. https://ash.harvard.edu/event/virtual-summit-continuing-threats-free-and-fair-elections

[Dave (in MA)]

The Wiki page for ERCOT claims that the North American Electric Reliability Corp.'s 2019 report says that TX was the sole part of the country without sufficient resources available to meet projected peak electricity demand in summertime.

Reliable under Goldilocks conditions, apparently.

[Dave (in MA)]

Not sure of the clown nose status at this point.

I applaud Jon Stewart for showing up 18 months late and saying what everyone is already saying when it became fashionable to do so https://t.co/QkcQw2CjHT

— AntifaBook.com (@JackPosobiec) June 15, 2021

[Dave (in MA)]

Jon Stewart newshttps://t.co/IISiFWGWhh

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 15, 2021

[GUS]

Mr Maguire, I assume by the GREATEST CITY in the WORLD, you mean NYC.. Have you been there lately??? Bwahahahahahahaahahhahahahhahhahahhaha.

[MissMarple2]

rse,

When Naomi Wolf gets deplatformed and banned from Twitter and ends up on Bannon’s show opposing vaccine passports, it looks like I simply don’t know what’s going on.

[Jim Eagle]

One of the reasons ERCOT is in the news is that except for a small portion in the north and north east of Texas it is a stand-alone region - no interconnections like the other 5 regional councils.

So, if plants go down, there is little interconnections from utilities outside Texas to back up their needs.

[Melinda]

Trying to gin up angst for a "Summer of DJT Love" going into Session for 2022?

https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/new-documents-show-trump-repeatedly-pressed-doj-to-overturn-election-results

From Froomkin's pan banging:

Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org
@froomkin
Could everyone stop for just a minute to contemplate the fact that the former president of the United States told his Department of Justice to get the Supreme Court to throw out the election results in six states he lost and hold a re-vote?

Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org @froomkin
!! Trump had his assistant email the acting AG he'd just installed urging DOJ to file a Supreme Court brief to “declare that the Electoral College votes cast” in 6 states “cannot be counted,” and order a re-vote.

And House Oversight has the emails!

oversight.house.gov/news/press-rel…

https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1404796675445624850

[Melinda]

Heh. Operation Mockingbird shouldn't have let the outlets hire only snowflakes:

Ed ☯️ The Obsolete Man...a Free Thinker
@DowdEdward
We have reached the point in the story of #MSM narrative propaganda control where Putin has the moral high ground in his point...stunning.

Election Wizard @Wizard_Predicts
Putin goes after NBC Reporter Keir Simmons for trying to silence him during an interview.

https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1404819842490724353

[matt - deplore me if you must]

It would seem to me that there would be an opportunity to build a NG a fired power plant somewhere near, say, the oil fields or even the pipeline hubs in Texas, wouldn't ya think?

Texas' population has been growing, so it's no wonder that the system is being strained.

She-it, maybe selling Texans their very own power plants could be a thing.They could sell a King Ranch version and make a killing.

[MikeJAdamson]

Definitely calls for a tax cut, preferably focused on the wealthy.

[Dave (in MA)]

Leftugees from Newsome's state will feel right at home, though.

[Melinda]

How Zuckerberg Millions Paid for Progressives to Work With 2020 Vote Officials Nationwide

In the months leading up to November’s election, voting officials in major cities and counties worked with a progressive group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and its allies to create ballots, strategically target voters and develop “cure” letters in situations where mail-in ballots were in danger of being tossed out.

The Center for Tech and Civic Life, or CTCL, provided millions of dollars in private funding for the elections that came from a $350 million donation from Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. The CTCL gave “COVID-19 response” grants of varying amounts to 2,500 municipalities in 49 states.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/14/how-zuckerberg-millions-paid-for-progressives-to-work-with-2020-election-officials-nationwide/

[Melinda]

24% of absentee ballots in Fulton County, Georgia dont have proper chain of custody paperwork?

I wonder if approximately 24% of mailed out absentee ballots were returned to sender from Fulton addresses?

Would Runbeck know?

https://t.me/CodeMonkeyZ/489

=Now you know why Georgia officials are suddenly throwing each other under the bus to try and get ahead of the actions taken by innocent election workers that they chose to ignore until the threat of an actual FORENSIC audit arrived at their door steps this week.==

https://t.me/CodeMonkeyZ/478

[Narciso]

Oh really

https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1404826046835396615

[Narciso]

Mostly harmless though

https://thepostmillennial.com/man-arrested-in-connection-to-multiple-shootings-says-he-targeted-white-males

[Neo]

California offers $100 million to rescue its struggling legal marijuana industry
https://news.yahoo.com/california-offers-100-million-rescue-231502162.html
California's priorities seem a bit .. askew

[Narciso]

They can even screw up pot sails

https://mobile.twitter.com/alexmaccaroon/status/1404685193429012480

Run for your lives

[Neo]

CNN: Pelosi says Trump DOJ's targeting of political enemies 'goes even beyond Richard Nixon

[Jim Eagle]

Matt, that is exactly where the power plants (except the two nukes) are sited in Texas. NG is the largest form followed by Coal.

Here is the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Texas

[Jim Eagle]

BTW, the issue isn't generation but rather Transmission capacity.

[Narciso]

Putins kill rate is just rather weak, camt get good help anywhere nowadays glushkov is the only one i can think of

[henry]

Green energy failed in TX. In particular, the wind didn’t blow. TX needs to use hydrocarbons (which it has plenty off) and find a way to connect the intermittent green energy to someone else’s grid. (Hopefully not my grid, which is chasing TX levels of green reliability on its own).

[Neo]

Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton's emails, McCain's being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic. Happy Digging! Here you go, please read and pass it on....

[Melinda]

Project Veritas new vid

>https://youtu.be/lnOd4wulw4M

[Neo]

Morgan Stanley CEO wants NYC staff back in the office full time by Labor Day and anyone who doesn't could face a salary cut....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9688355/Morgan-Stanley-CEO-wants-staff-NYC-office-Labor-Day.html

[Narciso]

Thats an old story neo.

[Melinda]

https://youtu.be/lnOd4wulw4M

Ivory Hecker tape.

[Narciso]

Who knows

https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1404559397880217600

[Melinda]

Narc, it's what he does.

[Narciso]

Say what

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/06/white-house-walks-back-biden-remark-about-swapping-cybercriminals-with-russia/

[Jane]

Neo,

Got a link?

Mel, got a link that works?

[Dave (in MA)]

Ivory Hecker, the new, mini-Sharyl Attkisson?

She said yesterday that she was being muzzled, and that O'Keefe would have the scoop. All that reveals is that she's being suspended for yesterday, right? What's the topic of whatever it was that got her muzzled?

[Melinda]

I wonder if this is material to earnings?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9688361/Airbnb-secret-black-box-team-forks-50-million-year-settlements.html

[Melinda]

It drops tonight, Dave.

[Dave (in MA)]

C'mon, man.

PrtScn from the video I just watched. (Rotated for ease of reading)

[Neo]

"Trudeau overheard telling staffers he expects Kamala Harris to be President by the end of 2022, per WH official attending G7."

[Neo]

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbclid=IwAR2U_Evqah_Qy2wxNY12FMqFC5dAFUcZL5Kl4FIfQuMFMp8ssbM46oHXWMI

[matt - deplore me if you must]

But I think the King Ranch home power plant idea has legs.

[Dave (in MA)]

'drops'

Annoying now-commonplace slang adopted from hip-hop lingo
[not directed at you, Mel]

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Jim, I think they may need more turbines, then. The issue was that solar and wind failed and then the grid began to have those issues related to a lack of steady current. Snapped power lines? Just an uneducated guess.

[henry]

I hope urban dwellers enjoy a lack of stores within public transportation range of themselves. That is the trajectory they are on.

@abc7newsbayarea

Cell phone video taken inside a #SanFrancisco Walgreens shows a man packing a garbage bag full of items while multiple people, including security filmed from feet away. Video shows him riding right past them on his bike down the aisle and out the door. abc7ne.ws/3vpSukK

https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1404834911106830348?s=21

[Neo]

Antifa Command & Control Structure in field action.
Structure, insignia and other identifiers.
https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/06/from-a-reader-a-look-at-antifas-field-organization/

[Melinda]

It’s why Walgreens is removing its San Francisco footprint entirely.

[Melinda]

@ReutersLegal
Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants could face more scrutiny and sanctions in the European Union after the bloc’s top court backed national privacy watchdogs to pursue them, even when they are not their lead regulators reut.rs/3gtVC9O

https://twitter.com/reuterslegal/status/1404857485693906947?s=21

[Neo]

Actress Lisa Banes has died after being the victim of a hit-and-run crash in New York City. She was 65.
The "Gone Girl" star, who was struck by a scooter or motorcycle while crossing a street on June 4, died Monday at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, a police department spokesperson said. The driver did not stop, police said. Police have made no arrests.

[Melinda]

Wow. Utterly, utterly the epitome of Ego:

BC
@BrCo1981
Wait....obvious conservative frauds include VDH and....LIMBAUGH????

Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom
"Conservatism Inc. was stuffed full of people who were obvious frauds: Matt Schlapp, Victor Davis Hanson, Limbaugh, Brent Bozell, Hewitt, Jerry Falwell Jr., Mark Levin... Of course they would all throw in with a proto-authoritarian game show host." thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/a-song-of-wo…

https://twitter.com/BrCo1981/status/1404863086738264072

[Melinda]

POLITICO
@politico
A proposal for the biggest change to U.S. antitrust law in decades would almost exclusively target Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and potentially Microsoft politico.com/news/2021/06/1…

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1404866312376139789

[henry]

Dems gotta shake down whoever has the money. Right now that is big tech, the already destroyed big oil.

[Dave (in MA)]

would almost exclusively target Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and potentially Microsoft

Gotta get Captain Nose Ring in there.

[Jim Eagle]

Henry, when I was in Washington, the average House or Senate member, in order increase campaign funds, would just introduce a measure or make noise of introducing same that would signifincantly be problematic for a certain constituency.

Ala, special interest contributions to their "neutral" PACs:)

[Jim Eagle]

They are singing the national anthems of France and Germany at Euro21 and Germany's is by far NOT superior much to their regret:)

[Neo]

BabylonBee: Kamala Harris Suggests Biden Has Dirt On The Clintons

Reporter Who Broke Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Story Found Dead – Moved His Family After Numerous Death Threats

[jimmyk]

The "Gone Girl" star, who was struck by a scooter or motorcycle while crossing a street on June 4, died Monday

That was by Lincoln Center. A couple months ago someone was killed right around the corner from me by someone on an electric bike. They ride in the deadly bike lanes created by DeBlasio even though they go as fast as cars. Thanks to our lazy, incompetent mayor the city has become a danger zone. If it's not crazy homeless people attacking, gang bangers freed with no bail, it's this.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Michael Smith:

Biden is the only president who can show up two hours late for a press conference and still not be there.

Xi, Putin and the leaders of the G-7 are licking their chops after the display of senility and weakness Biden put on.

Biden is the doddering old man these conmen have targeted and intend to scam out of his life savings (which will be our tax money).
Something I noticed as we witnessed my mother mentally slip away - she was most comfortable in familiar settings with people with whom she was familiar - and to cope with change, in her mind she would often substitute similar situations and people from her past for current events.

If you pay attention to Biden's handlers, they are being obsessively careful to protect him from anything new or unfamiliar. I think that is why you only see him going to places he visited when he was Obama's VP and doing things in which he used to have a role.

I think that is probably why he confused Libya for Syria. Libya wasn't the public failure that Obama's inaction on Syria was and he remembers it, probably because he and Hillary were deeper engaged than anyone knew at the time.

It is my belief that when this man is placed in a stressful situation, he will default to one of two modes - as my mother did - either complete anger and frustration or complete shutdown.

As a nation, we are in more danger from our own leadership than any time since Woodrow Wilson.

[Manuel Transmission]

Sheesh. The boss scrambles in to get me after spotting a fledge Junco over on Jane’s deck. I grab my big camera and head over to see a little guy snuggled against the edge of the deck. As I crouch down to get a decent perspective, I hear a thunk on the window over my head and see a hummer drop in front of me. WTH! The boss picks him up and carries him over to a table in the sun and then I notice a 2nd fledge Junco right there. She brings the 1st one over to where the 2nd one was and about that time the parents show up and give us shit, so we repair to a remote spot. Don’t know if the folks can keep them safe and fed or not. And no sign of whatever nest they fell out of. Maybe there is a bird void bubble that drifted in.

Of course we are a sanctuary county, so maybe that’s a factor.

[clarice]

https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/federal-foreknowledge-jan-6-unindicted-co-conspirators-raise-disturbing-questions/

[henry]

That’ll fix the border. By eliminating it.

@WSJ

The Biden administration says it is expanding a program designed to allow children and teenagers from Central America come to the U.S. legally

[henry]

More distractions.

@WSJ

A New York judge ruled that Harvey Weinstein can be extradited to Los Angeles, paving the way for the former Hollywood producer to face sex-crimes charges in California after more than a year of delays because of the pandemic and his health

[jim nj]

Fireworks display tonight in NY as they hit the 70% Covid vaccination goal.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/new-york-will-lift-most-covid-restrictions-after-70percent-of-adults-vaccinated.html

[Jim Eagle]

Sitting up on my Upper Terrace overlooking the 18th green and the beach. Young ladies are in a practice round for the Ladies Florida Open that starts Thursday. Boy are they good:)

[Narciso]

But of course

https://mobile.twitter.com/AcrossTheBay/status/1404784116877438981

[jim nj]

Fireworks, no - bobbleheads, yes, as California also reopens.

'California is turning the page.' Reopening celebrated with dancing after midnight and baseball bobblehead giveaway

[Jane]

ManTran,

You need to build them a house on my deck!

[jim nj]

I forgot the link:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/us/california-reopening-15th/index.html

[henry]

Excellent letter at link.

@senronjohnson

.@jonstewart @StephenAtHome enjoyed your Late Show Wuhan virus discussion. Since I was mentioned, let me share this email I got from a constituent. Open minds can save lives.

https://twitter.com/senronjohnson/status/1404856377856700417?s=21

[Dave (in MA)]

Just spitballin', but how about we try throwing "czars" into a volcano?

Didn’t sacrifice enough? What the hell is wrong with him? Hard to imagine a more callous and plainly stupid comment from someone who is supposed to be the “COVID czar.” https://t.co/kFYeHZWz6i

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) June 15, 2021

Tom Elliott@tomselliott

Biden’s Covid czar,
@ASlavitt
, says the pandemic wouldn’t have been as bad if Americans “had sacrificed a little bit” more.

Avoiding social interaction "requires a certain amount of sacrifice and change."

[henry]

Do lawyers get paid by the question? (cnbc report)

@yasminkhorram

Judge throws out Elizabeth Holmes’ 100+ questions for jurors, citing potential jury “fatigue”

[jim nj]

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu

[Dave (in MA)]

https://t.co/tS5hHPF9kW pic.twitter.com/dEeWB70p1V

— Dave (in MA) (@DaveinMA) June 15, 2021

The Washington Post pic.twitter.com/R0SanxbNfl

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 15, 2021

[jim nj]

https://notthebee.com/article/new-survey-says-new-jersey-is-the-best-state-to-live-in-proving-definitively-you-should-never-trust-surveys

I'm not saying that Gov. Murphy bribed somebody, but...

[Narciso]

Its a good first step dave.

[Narciso]

Facepalm with an old one.

[jim nj]

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2021/06/15/watch-jon-stewart-told-the-truth-about-covid-and-there-was-nothing-stephen-colbert-could-do-to-stop-him-n1454822

[Narciso]

Who will bell that cat, or wrap it in wlecyrical tape

https://mobile.twitter.com/proteinwisdom/status/1404878620753993730

[Narciso]

Electrical tape

[Narciso]

These people are certifiable

https://mobile.twitter.com/Diosis85/status/1404877154622529537

[Jane]

Tucker has been amazing tonite. He started the show with the guy who wrote the piece about the FBI guys involved in the 1/6 riots. It’s looking more and more like this was all a set up by the government, to bring down 100 million people in the country - and it’s not ending unless we stop it.

[Narciso]

A mixed blessing

https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/things-to-do/article252124113.html?ac_cid=DM472174&ac_bid=790731766

[bubarooni]

I think that I read back during the Winter Crisis that energy producers were regulated by the Texas Railroad Commission.

The commission has been infiltrated by renewable energy types over the last 20-30 years foisting their new religion.

If I recall correctly, some northener, an Illini type who had imbibed the green energy hoax was forced off the commission due to debacle.

Hopefully for The Lone Star, that was only the start of bloodletting and they will get back to producing reliable, coal and gas fired electricity soon.

I know there are some pretty knowlederable peeps on the board who have discussed the timeline of producing that type of energy.

What would you say, 10 years to rectify the situation?

[Narciso]

Theyve thrown a lot of spanners into the wprks

https://mobile.twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1404921001910038531

[Narciso]

I dont know where they were going with this

https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dushanbe-interviews-christopher

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The responses to Ron Johnson's letter at henry's 7:20 link are like reading the thoughts of another species.
There is no more reasoning with these things than a rabid dog. And they're less pleasant.

[Narciso]

Theyve double stocked on pods use flamethrowers on the nests.

[MissMarple2]

For Jim Eagle, video at link;

The Beagles are making a comeback

pic.twitter.com/mU322e38GY

— Kevin W. (@Brink_Thinker) May 16, 2021

[henry]

Yeah. Govt workers need another day off. [can only watch so much pron]

@marketwatch

Senate passes Juneteenth bill by unanimous consent

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Were Your Ancestors Oppressed, Possibly Entitling You To Reparations? Take The Quiz!

[Jane]

What is Juneteenth?

[Narciso]

Celebration of emancipation of slaves started in texas.

[jim nj]

Texas Kwanza.

[Narciso]

No its genuine it goes back to 1866.

[jim nj]

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/06/15/welcome_to_wokespeak_its_logic-defying_rhetoric_is_making_heads_spin_780731.html

[MissMarple2]

Well, how come I don't get a holiday for my people?

I know GUS and I would like a Scottish-American Day.

Or maybe one for the Scandinavians, like my Danish relatives.

Pfui!

[Narciso]

But it exclusiomary the way they put but it has more roots than kwanza.

[MissMarple2]

Oh, well.

Heading to bed. Still not totally up to snuff. Bronchitis isn't much fun, or a chest cold, or whatever hit me due to my allergies. Yuk.

Good night all!

[sbwaters]

I’m a tenth of the way through Catturd’s SciFi "Rabbitskin" on Kindle and I like it so far. Who knew?

[Narciso]

Oh

https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1404952198711291906

[jim nj]

https://hughhewitt.com/former-secretary-of-state-michael-pompeo-on-cavpac-nato-and-china-the-hamas-caucus/

https://cavpac.com/

Pompeo's new PAC

[jim nj]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/gaza-fire-balloons-airstrikes-israel

Gaza unrest: Fire balloons, airstrikes mark a new round of violence in Israel

The Israelis decided not to ignore the incendiary balloon launches coming from Gaza.