by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:
According to this recent story over at Natural News, a new report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) says that “grids from the Great Lakes to Louisiana, New England, Carolinas, and all of Texas are the most at risk for power supply shortfalls during high-demand periods” this coming Winter, with the regulatory organization also warning if there is a cold snap for weeks on end, that could lead to major strains on power grids as demand from households and businesses rises significantly. Such demand would lead to rapid drawdowns of natural gas, coal, and backup diesel generators, which could then lead to shortages and power disruptions.
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With cold weather already upon many of us and Winter quickly closing in, and many different sectors of the energy market getting hit by power & demand crunches at the same time as the colder weather closes in, we thought it a great time to do a refresher course on ‘winter prepping‘ with NERC warning of the potential of so many outages ahead and the technologies which people depend upon to provide life sustaining warmth goes haywire at the worst possible time, bringing us back to a time when ‘warmth’ wasn’t as close by as a flip of a switch and mother nature is the biggest killer of all for the unprepared.
And while most think that it will never happen to them, and we pray that it doesn’t, all we need to do is look back to February of 2021 and the deadly Winter storms that hit Texas and triggered power outages all across the state during the worst possible time, leading to between 246 and 702 needless deaths.
In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, 13–17, and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in Texas state history, leading to shortages of water, food, and heat. More than 4.5 million homes and businesses were left without power, some for several days. At least 246 people were killed directly or indirectly, with some estimates as high as 702 killed as a result of the crisis.
State officials including Republican governor Greg Abbott initially blamed the outages on frozen wind turbines and solar panels. However, data showed that failure to winterize power sources, like wind turbines and natural gas infrastructure, had caused the grid failure. Texas’s power grid has long been separate from the two major national grids to avoid federal oversight, though it is still connected to the other national grids and Mexico’s; the limited number of ties made it difficult for the state to import electricity from other states during the crisis. Deregulation of its electricity market beginning in the 1990s resulted in competition in wholesale electricity prices, but also cost cutting for contingency preparation.
And while the Texas Tribune reported on January 2nd of 2022 that the state of Texas put the final number dead due to the storms at 246, many less than the estimates of over 700, that is STILL 246 deaths too many with simple preparations for the cold and frigid weather one of the very first things that we do once Summer comes to an end living up here on a mountain top in Western Maryland where cold weather is with us for at least a good part of 6 months, and quite often more.
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