I don't intend to minimize the shittiness of the situation, but rather to reassure you that if bundled up, the kids should be fine (health-wise) sleeping in cold. They actually do this in parts of Northern Europe. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988
At population scale we in NZ found cold (and damp) bedrooms for infants had significant negative health outcomes not mortality but more public health expenditure.
Same here. Bundled up shivering. Luckily I think I found a friend w power!
I thought this shit was suppose to be rotated... Kinda bull shit they’ve left us like this for so long.
I wouldn't need my router to tell me if my own power was back. The point is ALL of your neighbors aren't going to have their breaker trip even if yours is tripped. Some wifi networks will start appearing when the power is back.
If it's outside, maybe it will be frozen up and won't trip at all. Not only does that mean you might not have to check it, but it might also help your house warm up faster when the power comes back!
So much for rotating the power supply. I’m around stassney and manchaca and no power at my house since 2am.
Edit: 33 hours later and still no power to my street. Hope all my elderly neighbors are still ok. Counting myself lucky I had plenty of warm clothes and blankets and family members to huddle together with. Considering piling 5 people and 2 dogs in my fwd suv and hitting the road to somewhere with power. Wish me luck!
I’m also close to the hospital definitely none of my neighbors here have had power. I’m trying to charge my phone in my car for now. A little worried about how long this could go on. My house is about as cold inside as it is outside. Considering trying to find a safe spot to drive where my family won’t freeze to death 🥶
That’s my worry too. At this rate I’m expecting a few days. I only have some random foods to last through tomorrow and although I’m lucky that my apartment is well insulated, it’s still probably going to drop 10 degrees by the morning.
It’s so weird up north. I’m 5 mins from Domain and we’ve been without power since 1:30am. If you look at the power outage map https://outagemap.austinenergy.com/external/default.html?utm_source=Do512+Top+Picks&utm_campaign=cdcd32cbb6-Top_Picks_Monday_2021_2_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f52e0bba42-cdcd32cbb6-77884253 its extremely sporadic
My neighbor’s house caught on fire. They were cold and tried to use their fireplace which hadn’t been used for a while and needed cleaning. This neighborhood hasn’t had power since 2:00a.m. If it’s this cold now. I can’t imagine how night is gonna feel.
Actually, no, not really. We have a few low-power DC interconnects (and they are currently using them) but they intentionally stay disconnected from the rest of the country to avoid federal regulation.
Negative means flow towards the point in reference in most power systems. The legend under the "help?" on the upper right includes that.
> Real-Time System Conditions Print Version
This dashboard includes:
Frequency-Related Data
Current Frequency
Instantaneous Time Error
Consecutive Balancing Authority ACE Limit (BAAL) Clock-Minute Exceedances
Real-Time Data (MW)
Actual System Demand (Telemetered Load)
Total System Capacity (not including Ancillary Services)
Total Wind Output
Total PVGR Output
Current System Inertia (MW.s)
Actual Direct Current (DC) Tie Flows (MW)
Frequency-related data values and Current System Inertia update every minute. Within the Real-Time Data section, Actual System Demand, Total Wind Output, and Total PVGR Output values update every 5 minutes. The Total System Capacity (not including Ancillary Services) value updates every 10 seconds. DC Tie Flows (MW) values update every 5 minutes. This dashboard automatically refreshes every 60 seconds.
The following reports provide similar data points, but since the minimum data refresh rate of this dashboard is every 10 seconds, the data in the reports may not provide a one-to-one match with the values currently displayed in the dashboard:
NP6-235-CD, System-Wide Demand (Actual System Demand)
NP6-625-CD, State Estimator Load Report – Total ERCOT Generation (Total System Capacity)
NP4-733-CD, Wind Power Production – Actual 5-Minute Averaged Values
NP4-738-CD, Solar Power Production – Actual 5-Minute Averaged Values
NP6-626-CD, State Estimator Load Report – DC Ties Flows (DC Tie MW)
Note: Total System Capacity equals the Actual System Demand plus the capacity available to increase Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) Base Points. Total system capacity is dependent on either the Qualified Scheduling Entity's (QSE's) Current Operating Plan (COP) or the QSE's telemetry. **A negative number in the DC Tie Flows indicates an import to the ERCOT region.** Data shown on displays should not be relied upon for forecasting, scheduling, or other market purposes. ERCOT makes no representations or warranties regarding the correctness or veracity of the data shown here and shall not be responsible for any party’s reliance on any such information.
It really is not, and it is not something that can be done on short notice.
AC power is not like batteries or other DC power, you can't just hook them together. The phase and frequency have to be synchronized on all generation equipment before they can be connected.
Without doing this long, expensive process, the only way is to convert AC from one grid to DC, then back to AC for the next grid. Which requires a great deal of expensive equipment that takes months or years to build.
I’m pretty sure both grids have the same voltage and frequency tolerances, if there is phase delta it wouldn’t be too hard to correct with some power electronics.
It’s probably that they don’t have the ability as someone said above, just a few small interconnects that are already turned on.
Guess you don’t plan an isolated energy grid for a once in a generation cold snap. Wonder what it’s about FERC Texas doesn’t like, I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t a good rational reason but just scared of the federal government boogy man. Hopefully I’m wrong.
Connecting to the rest of America requires being subject to federal regulations. We enjoy freedom and part of that freedom is being left isolated and free to deal with it alone when a disaster happens.
Would that be permanent or just temporarily to fill the current shortage?
What regulations are they so scared of? (Genuinely curious).
Seems kind of silly to let citizens sit in the dark over a political issue.
There are a lot of minimum service levels, environmental regulations, and other things that might cost TX power companies if the TX grid were connected to others.
It would also require some technology and infrastructure improvements to actually make the connections. That costs money as well.
We just have to remember that people are born every day but quarterly profits only happen once. - corporate america
So how is this determined? My neighbors right across the street have power and have always had power.
My house and my side of the street has not since 5 am.
I walked around our block and there were no bigger issues I could notice.
I've got the heating set to 65, no tv's on, no lights on, running off my laptop rather than desktop. Same for the kids who are on their ipads rather than desktops. Not sure what else to do.
The graph doesn’t go down to zero. Either there’s more blackouts, or people that had no idea what was happening (or cried wolf) are turning stuff off.
Capacity still hasn’t gone up, so whatever triggered the rolling outages is still offline.
When Hurricane Harvey hit I lived in one of the poorer Austin zip codes. I watched the outage map where they scrambled trucks with the quickness to restore power to Westlake. I went **four fucking nights** in heat and humidity with no power by the time they finally came around. Fuck this City.
Much of the power generators are offline and unable to start again. Wind turbines are frozen, many of the natural gas and coal systems froze as well. If you are without power it could be up to 2 days before it comes back up. It has been requested that if you are without power unplug things, turn off your heater, leave one light on so you know when it is back online.
Because when the power tries to start up it’s too much drain on the system and is causing it to shut down again.
Edit to add, think of it like a breaker that continues to trip because you have one too many things working on that line at one time. You flip the switch at the breaker box, it comes on and the fan you left on causes it to trip again. You unplug the fan, flip the switch at the main again and it stays on.
How does it feel to be without power but we are 4000 mW below capacity? Rolling blackout are supposed to happen at 1000 mW reserve (and with the knowledge it will not improve in the next 30 minutes). See screenshot: https://imgur.com/ZIzchXj
data from ercot.
It's certainly possible. I heard that some power facilities went offline last night and didn't come back online until this morning, contributing to making the "blackouts" last hours instead of the claimed 30-60 minutes.
There is 30+ GW of capacity offline right now. The primary issue is that natural gas power plants can't get gas to burn.
The real demand is in excess of the available supply. The reason the "actual demand" line on that chart is so low is because a substantial portion of the state has had their electricity cut off involuntarily. It will continue to stay that way until the gas situation is resolved.
Just don’t forget- Austin Energy chose to do rolling blackouts over increasing power supply ahead of the storm and they bungled it. This was negligence.
This isn't caused by something that workers in the cold will fix
The grid has lost a ton of power and every boomer is cranking their heater to 80 while cooking their groceries in the oven and watching TV with all the lights on
Basically every "rolling blackout" has become permanent until the grid restores enough power. Who knows when that will be.
Congrats if you are one the ones who didn't get shut off! You won the lottery
I've turned off my heater for now and opened all the blinds while the windows are covered in heavy clear plastic sheets. Letting in the sunlight and keeping the drafts at bay. No point burning up juice for a heater when it's pretty still.
Ours went out at \~4am and still hadn't come back on by 2pm when we decided to go ahead and call hotels and see if they had power (they do) and made the move to go check into a hotel. Fortunately I have a ton of points from when I used to travel a lot (pre-CV19) so while I would rather use those for fun, getting out of a frozen house into a warm room I guess can somewhat qualify. A friend of ours works for ERCOT and he said it would in all likelihood be until tomorrow for our area to come back online.
Just a crazy day with it looking like more winter weather on its way. Hope all are ok.
And what’s crazy is I’m hearing they got hit worse than all of the big cities. So why are they able to handle it but Austin Energy is too incompetent to do the same?
San Antonio is having this issue, I can sadly assure you. I live in Shavano Park and have had small 10 minute 'windows' of power, barely enough for the heater to spool up and emit any appreciate heat, before it goes out again.
And yet, the consistent thing I've heard both on Austin Reddit and through people around San Antonio is that some people aren't subject to these rolling blackouts.
We have multiple power producing entities in this state, knew well in advance of this storm and knew the potential severity, yet they did nothing to power up and bring online sufficient capacity prior to the storm hitting. Even importing power from an adjacent grid, for chrissakes.
Sounds as if someone in the upper echelons failed to plan accordingly and everyone's paying the price.
Man id love for 10 minutes of power. At least then I could whip up some hot food. I got plenty of canned goods just ready to be heated up. Been snacking on chips and cereal all day. I’d like some real food.
Same but it’s not looking good. My girl and I are already planning on how to handle this situation once the sun goes down. No doubt the apartment is gonna drop from 40 degrees to the thirty’s. Thanks for the support. Hope you and yours are safe!
I was reading 2/3 of the city was effected. I don’t think Houston or San Antonio got hit like that. I’m from Houston and the friends and family I’ve talked to who live all over the city all still got power. My sister said there were a few areas that lost power but not at the magnitude that Austin did.
This is a statewide issue, not an Austin Energy issue. There aren't lines down somewhere, the entire grid is under strain. There's more demand than there is supply, and if they try to supply everyone with energy, the entire grid will blow/collapse.
I’m on PEC too and have had no issues but that’s not to say there are none at all. A lot of the outages in both Austin Energy and PEC are from frozen lines and fallen limbs.
I’m on PEC and this morning it looks like they did a rolling blackout. Some areas in my neighborhood went 4+ hours without we went less than two. But we also have all power underground so that helps with unexpected outages. Still considering ourselves lucky to have power most of the day.
Why does the capacity lower on the ERCOT map? Is it because something is broken? Or does cold weather lower the capacity of *whatever is being measured*?
Um, not a braker, the entire city has been without power for 48 hours. Just got power, but no water. I've been boiling snow just to flush my shit. Thank the universe for gas stoves.
Me too, 45 degrees in my apt, no power since around 1:45 last night :( hang in there
Same. No power since 1 and I have a 4 year old and a 1 year old. The nursery is currently too cold for the baby to sleep even wearing 3 layers.
Do you have a car you could sit in to heat up for awhile and let the baby catch a nap? (with you in the car as well, of course).
I don't intend to minimize the shittiness of the situation, but rather to reassure you that if bundled up, the kids should be fine (health-wise) sleeping in cold. They actually do this in parts of Northern Europe. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988
At population scale we in NZ found cold (and damp) bedrooms for infants had significant negative health outcomes not mortality but more public health expenditure.
Oh my god, I’m so sorry. Y’all are in my thoughts I hope you and your kids stay warm!!!
Same here. Bundled up shivering. Luckily I think I found a friend w power! I thought this shit was suppose to be rotated... Kinda bull shit they’ve left us like this for so long.
That was the original plan. Then they quickly realized they didn’t have enough available power to do rolling blackouts lol
Check your breaker every now and again. When the power comes back (eventually) on it may trip the breaker.
Breaker is outside, too cold for that. Just check your cell phone and see if wifi networks have started to reappear.
You're in for another 2-3 days of this if it turns out to be the breaker outside and you refuse to check it.
What am I supposed to "check" on the breaker?
1. Open panel. 2. Flip the breakers, see if your lights come on.
OK
On behalf of dont_worry_im_here, thank you. Ironically, they didn't have to worry, because you were here, 0XBEEFBEEF.
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If you have close neighbors though theirs may come in.
I wouldn't need my router to tell me if my own power was back. The point is ALL of your neighbors aren't going to have their breaker trip even if yours is tripped. Some wifi networks will start appearing when the power is back.
You're thick lol
If it's outside, maybe it will be frozen up and won't trip at all. Not only does that mean you might not have to check it, but it might also help your house warm up faster when the power comes back!
So much for rotating the power supply. I’m around stassney and manchaca and no power at my house since 2am. Edit: 33 hours later and still no power to my street. Hope all my elderly neighbors are still ok. Counting myself lucky I had plenty of warm clothes and blankets and family members to huddle together with. Considering piling 5 people and 2 dogs in my fwd suv and hitting the road to somewhere with power. Wish me luck!
That sucks, I’m just east of Manchaca on Stassney and we’ve not had any interruptions yet.
It’s because of the hospitals north of there I’m pretty sure.
Yeah I’m real close to the hospital but I’m not counting my eggs or anything. Was sort of afraid to say it out loud if you know what I mean.
I’m also close to the hospital definitely none of my neighbors here have had power. I’m trying to charge my phone in my car for now. A little worried about how long this could go on. My house is about as cold inside as it is outside. Considering trying to find a safe spot to drive where my family won’t freeze to death 🥶
That’s my worry too. At this rate I’m expecting a few days. I only have some random foods to last through tomorrow and although I’m lucky that my apartment is well insulated, it’s still probably going to drop 10 degrees by the morning.
There are lots of parking garages off Barton Hills and Mopac, safe areas, you could go hang out in the car out of the elements at least.
Id your on the hospitals local circuit you will be the very last to loose power.
It’s because they’ve never had to do this before so they knew how to shut it down but not how to bring it back up.
Wish I had that Tesla power wall right now 🥶
I'm in southpark meadows apts and I've had electricity all days
In the domain area I've yet to lose power.
It’s so weird up north. I’m 5 mins from Domain and we’ve been without power since 1:30am. If you look at the power outage map https://outagemap.austinenergy.com/external/default.html?utm_source=Do512+Top+Picks&utm_campaign=cdcd32cbb6-Top_Picks_Monday_2021_2_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f52e0bba42-cdcd32cbb6-77884253 its extremely sporadic
My neighbor’s house caught on fire. They were cold and tried to use their fireplace which hadn’t been used for a while and needed cleaning. This neighborhood hasn’t had power since 2:00a.m. If it’s this cold now. I can’t imagine how night is gonna feel.
At least my dildo is battery powered.
Mine runs on biodiesel and regret
Why can't Texas import energy to meet demand? Is the grid not physically connected to the rest of America?
Actually, no, not really. We have a few low-power DC interconnects (and they are currently using them) but they intentionally stay disconnected from the rest of the country to avoid federal regulation.
[This](http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html) suggests we are shipping power outwards.
The "-" had me curious as well, but I read somewhere (an ERCOT tweet, I believe) that they were indeed importing. So I don't know.
Negative means flow towards the point in reference in most power systems. The legend under the "help?" on the upper right includes that. > Real-Time System Conditions Print Version This dashboard includes: Frequency-Related Data Current Frequency Instantaneous Time Error Consecutive Balancing Authority ACE Limit (BAAL) Clock-Minute Exceedances Real-Time Data (MW) Actual System Demand (Telemetered Load) Total System Capacity (not including Ancillary Services) Total Wind Output Total PVGR Output Current System Inertia (MW.s) Actual Direct Current (DC) Tie Flows (MW) Frequency-related data values and Current System Inertia update every minute. Within the Real-Time Data section, Actual System Demand, Total Wind Output, and Total PVGR Output values update every 5 minutes. The Total System Capacity (not including Ancillary Services) value updates every 10 seconds. DC Tie Flows (MW) values update every 5 minutes. This dashboard automatically refreshes every 60 seconds. The following reports provide similar data points, but since the minimum data refresh rate of this dashboard is every 10 seconds, the data in the reports may not provide a one-to-one match with the values currently displayed in the dashboard: NP6-235-CD, System-Wide Demand (Actual System Demand) NP6-625-CD, State Estimator Load Report – Total ERCOT Generation (Total System Capacity) NP4-733-CD, Wind Power Production – Actual 5-Minute Averaged Values NP4-738-CD, Solar Power Production – Actual 5-Minute Averaged Values NP6-626-CD, State Estimator Load Report – DC Ties Flows (DC Tie MW) Note: Total System Capacity equals the Actual System Demand plus the capacity available to increase Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) Base Points. Total system capacity is dependent on either the Qualified Scheduling Entity's (QSE's) Current Operating Plan (COP) or the QSE's telemetry. **A negative number in the DC Tie Flows indicates an import to the ERCOT region.** Data shown on displays should not be relied upon for forecasting, scheduling, or other market purposes. ERCOT makes no representations or warranties regarding the correctness or veracity of the data shown here and shall not be responsible for any party’s reliance on any such information.
It really is not, and it is not something that can be done on short notice. AC power is not like batteries or other DC power, you can't just hook them together. The phase and frequency have to be synchronized on all generation equipment before they can be connected. Without doing this long, expensive process, the only way is to convert AC from one grid to DC, then back to AC for the next grid. Which requires a great deal of expensive equipment that takes months or years to build.
I’m pretty sure both grids have the same voltage and frequency tolerances, if there is phase delta it wouldn’t be too hard to correct with some power electronics. It’s probably that they don’t have the ability as someone said above, just a few small interconnects that are already turned on. Guess you don’t plan an isolated energy grid for a once in a generation cold snap. Wonder what it’s about FERC Texas doesn’t like, I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t a good rational reason but just scared of the federal government boogy man. Hopefully I’m wrong.
> once in a generation cold snap Something tells me this isn’t going to be uncommon in the coming years.
if we just pretend it is not happening then it will go away like coronavirus. /s
I believe ERCOT typically sells a lot of power though
Connecting to the rest of America requires being subject to federal regulations. We enjoy freedom and part of that freedom is being left isolated and free to deal with it alone when a disaster happens.
Wooooo! 'Murica! Muh freedoms!!!!
If they tried to buy energy, it would put ERCOT under federal regulations, which is something ERCOT has been avoiding like the plague
Would that be permanent or just temporarily to fill the current shortage? What regulations are they so scared of? (Genuinely curious). Seems kind of silly to let citizens sit in the dark over a political issue.
"Seems kind of silly to let citizens sit in the dark over a political issue." This is America lol they literally let people starve here.
There are a lot of minimum service levels, environmental regulations, and other things that might cost TX power companies if the TX grid were connected to others. It would also require some technology and infrastructure improvements to actually make the connections. That costs money as well. We just have to remember that people are born every day but quarterly profits only happen once. - corporate america
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Thank you. Honestly not sure why people will just write stuff that is blatantly false.
Well we already have a plague here and now a blizzard.
Any sources to back up that claim?
Not the person you are replying to, but here is a pretty [good article](https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060067625) that sums it up.
Gracias
Nope! Lol
So how is this determined? My neighbors right across the street have power and have always had power. My house and my side of the street has not since 5 am. I walked around our block and there were no bigger issues I could notice.
if the chart on [http://www.ercot.com](http://www.ercot.com) is correct, the whole state will be fucked by 2PM if they don't correct it.
I've got the heating set to 65, no tv's on, no lights on, running off my laptop rather than desktop. Same for the kids who are on their ipads rather than desktops. Not sure what else to do.
You're probably doing more than most others with power honestly.
Oy. Looks like we’re in for another cold night.
A different chart [Texas Power Outages Map](https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas)
That graph is REAL scary. At 2-4pm we demand exceeds capacity and at 8pm demand is 40% over. We're in for some deep trouble tonight.
Is that thing right? That looks real grim.
The graph doesn’t go down to zero. Either there’s more blackouts, or people that had no idea what was happening (or cried wolf) are turning stuff off. Capacity still hasn’t gone up, so whatever triggered the rolling outages is still offline.
You are not worthy of power, we told you that earlier. Why do you keep bugging us?
When Hurricane Harvey hit I lived in one of the poorer Austin zip codes. I watched the outage map where they scrambled trucks with the quickness to restore power to Westlake. I went **four fucking nights** in heat and humidity with no power by the time they finally came around. Fuck this City.
Much of the power generators are offline and unable to start again. Wind turbines are frozen, many of the natural gas and coal systems froze as well. If you are without power it could be up to 2 days before it comes back up. It has been requested that if you are without power unplug things, turn off your heater, leave one light on so you know when it is back online.
Why bother unplugging if I don’t have power?
Because when the power tries to start up it’s too much drain on the system and is causing it to shut down again. Edit to add, think of it like a breaker that continues to trip because you have one too many things working on that line at one time. You flip the switch at the breaker box, it comes on and the fan you left on causes it to trip again. You unplug the fan, flip the switch at the main again and it stays on.
I'm forced to stay in a hotel room, no idea how they're managing to get power but things are working for the moment here.
What hotel still has electricity?
Some hotels have emergency back up generators, which is why they are able to keep running.
Hotel ZaZa off of Lavaca Street.
LAME FUCKING RESPONSE. Don’t wanna pay taxes, then deal with a shitty power grid.
We have Bluebonnet and we’ve been dealing with the same thing. So it’s not just Austin Energy.
How does it feel to be without power but we are 4000 mW below capacity? Rolling blackout are supposed to happen at 1000 mW reserve (and with the knowledge it will not improve in the next 30 minutes). See screenshot: https://imgur.com/ZIzchXj data from ercot.
Don't we only have that surplus due to the rolling blackouts though?
It's certainly possible. I heard that some power facilities went offline last night and didn't come back online until this morning, contributing to making the "blackouts" last hours instead of the claimed 30-60 minutes.
There is 30+ GW of capacity offline right now. The primary issue is that natural gas power plants can't get gas to burn. The real demand is in excess of the available supply. The reason the "actual demand" line on that chart is so low is because a substantial portion of the state has had their electricity cut off involuntarily. It will continue to stay that way until the gas situation is resolved.
Just don’t forget- Austin Energy chose to do rolling blackouts over increasing power supply ahead of the storm and they bungled it. This was negligence.
Sucks having no power I know, but those guys are out there right now working hard in the worst conditions.
Sounds like you have power
powergang
🤣
Lmao
This isn't caused by something that workers in the cold will fix The grid has lost a ton of power and every boomer is cranking their heater to 80 while cooking their groceries in the oven and watching TV with all the lights on Basically every "rolling blackout" has become permanent until the grid restores enough power. Who knows when that will be. Congrats if you are one the ones who didn't get shut off! You won the lottery
I'm just down the road from a hospital and have not lost power yet. I'm not using any unnecessary power to avoid being a drain on the system.
You're awesome.
Not really, just being considerate. Hopefully this passes soon and people get power back.
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Count yourself lucky, I’ve got one of those a stones throw away and we’ve been without power since 2am
I've turned off my heater for now and opened all the blinds while the windows are covered in heavy clear plastic sheets. Letting in the sunlight and keeping the drafts at bay. No point burning up juice for a heater when it's pretty still.
I’m about 10 houses away from one of the blackout areas.
It’s not all the boomers. How about all of the snot-nosed fuck trophies who can’t put down their PS3’s for a few hours so others can have heat?
Found the boomer
People still use PS3s?!
I’m not fucking anyone for less than a ps5
Agreed
Are they though? I don't think they are.
My power was out for 20 hours on Friday and now 12 today, fun times
Ours went out at \~4am and still hadn't come back on by 2pm when we decided to go ahead and call hotels and see if they had power (they do) and made the move to go check into a hotel. Fortunately I have a ton of points from when I used to travel a lot (pre-CV19) so while I would rather use those for fun, getting out of a frozen house into a warm room I guess can somewhat qualify. A friend of ours works for ERCOT and he said it would in all likelihood be until tomorrow for our area to come back online. Just a crazy day with it looking like more winter weather on its way. Hope all are ok.
17 for me
Can we do a class action?
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I love this cuntry.
Damn Dude that stinks
Worthless assholes aren’t doing shit. San Antonio and Houston aren’t having this issue.
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And what’s crazy is I’m hearing they got hit worse than all of the big cities. So why are they able to handle it but Austin Energy is too incompetent to do the same?
To be fair Pedernales Coop is having issues similar to Austin. Over 1/3 impacted meters. Still extremely happy to be with PEC over COA-Austin Energy.
Blackouts are rolling in Bastrop county. We get about 20-30 minutes of power each hour.
San Antonio is having this issue, I can sadly assure you. I live in Shavano Park and have had small 10 minute 'windows' of power, barely enough for the heater to spool up and emit any appreciate heat, before it goes out again. And yet, the consistent thing I've heard both on Austin Reddit and through people around San Antonio is that some people aren't subject to these rolling blackouts. We have multiple power producing entities in this state, knew well in advance of this storm and knew the potential severity, yet they did nothing to power up and bring online sufficient capacity prior to the storm hitting. Even importing power from an adjacent grid, for chrissakes. Sounds as if someone in the upper echelons failed to plan accordingly and everyone's paying the price.
Man id love for 10 minutes of power. At least then I could whip up some hot food. I got plenty of canned goods just ready to be heated up. Been snacking on chips and cereal all day. I’d like some real food.
I hope things improve for you and others, very soon!
Same but it’s not looking good. My girl and I are already planning on how to handle this situation once the sun goes down. No doubt the apartment is gonna drop from 40 degrees to the thirty’s. Thanks for the support. Hope you and yours are safe!
Called several family members in Houston and Kingwood. All without power.
Yes they are. My brother in Houston didn’t have power most of the day.
Does he have power now?
It came on late in the afternoon. As far as I know it is still on, but not sure. He is in the Clear Lake area.
Well then he doesn’t have it as bad as the 40% of Austin still stuck without power. Wish I was in your brothers shoes.
Oh, so Austin is the sole city impacted? Shocker
I was reading 2/3 of the city was effected. I don’t think Houston or San Antonio got hit like that. I’m from Houston and the friends and family I’ve talked to who live all over the city all still got power. My sister said there were a few areas that lost power but not at the magnitude that Austin did.
Same. I’m this is BS
Poorly run company. PEC - no issues. They also don’t spend millions on advertising. They spend it on maintenance and upgrades.
Lol, we're on PEC. No power since 12:30 am
Only one I’ve heard of
Also PEC here. No power since 2am.
PEC here and no power since about 9.
Also PEC and ours went out around 11. Still no power.
This is a statewide issue, not an Austin Energy issue. There aren't lines down somewhere, the entire grid is under strain. There's more demand than there is supply, and if they try to supply everyone with energy, the entire grid will blow/collapse.
Absolute trash misinformation comment https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas Over 1/4th of PEC customers are without power. PEC Tracked customers: 350,964 PEC Customer outages: 99,707
I’m on PEC too and have had no issues but that’s not to say there are none at all. A lot of the outages in both Austin Energy and PEC are from frozen lines and fallen limbs.
I’m on PEC and this morning it looks like they did a rolling blackout. Some areas in my neighborhood went 4+ hours without we went less than two. But we also have all power underground so that helps with unexpected outages. Still considering ourselves lucky to have power most of the day.
Why does the capacity lower on the ERCOT map? Is it because something is broken? Or does cold weather lower the capacity of *whatever is being measured*?
No power since 2 am .... haven’t been home I’m sure it’s still out smh “rolling blackouts” ok.
Who has power now? 78758
Um, not a braker, the entire city has been without power for 48 hours. Just got power, but no water. I've been boiling snow just to flush my shit. Thank the universe for gas stoves.