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Massive Texas power outage

yeah, just got off the phone with my parents, they are down in Htown, and their power is out, currently on propane generator backup.

Unfortunately my dad isn't too keen on spending any kind of money on something he doesn't understand. I've tried explaining my system to him (i'm a few hundred miles away), but still no dice. They have a perfect use case as well in that they have 5 acres of land that would make for an amazing ground mount setup. They did get so much rain and wind that one of the large trees got uprooted and fell over, luckily they are pretty self sufficient and don't need to go anywhere for food/water/misc. and they have all the tools to make said tree disappear.
 
EZPZ said:
Just started raining heavily here. No outages in the county yet. Battery on “quick charge” to get it to 100%. Generator fueled and standing by…time to make coffee.
Current outages in TX is 2 million - https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas
Hope everyone is safe.
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Which county are you at?

Yeah, most of SE Texas is without power, especially the counties where landfall happened. Wharton, Brazoria, and Matagorda counties have almost 100% outages, that's 70K customers in those 3 counties alone.

Lots of overtime for the line workers!
 
Wow, the power is rough. On, off, on, off. Rough on the equipment. Turning off what we can. Storm is mostly passed.
 
Subdood said:
Which county are you at?

Yeah, most of SE Texas is without power, especially the counties where landfall happened. Wharton, Brazoria, and Matagorda counties have almost 100% outages, that's 70K customers in those 3 counties alone.

Lots of overtime for the line workers!
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Really bad. And this is just going to get worse in the coming years.
Prepare.....
 
Subdood said:
Which county are you at?

Yeah, most of SE Texas is without power, especially the counties where landfall happened. Wharton, Brazoria, and Matagorda counties have almost 100% outages, that's 70K customers in those 3 counties alone.

Lots of overtime for the line workers!
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And more "storm recovery charges" to pay for fixing the same stuff again and again.

Our power flickered once today and we aren't anywhere near this storm.
 
Now 2.7mm customers with no grid power, so how many people would that be? With an average of what 3-4 people in each dwelling, maybe 8-10 million people in the dark?

First the Houston derecho from a few months ago and now this. Imagine the insurance premium surge for folks there.

poweroutage.us

Texas Power Outages Map

PowerOutage.us tracks, records, and aggregates power outages across the United States.
poweroutage.us poweroutage.us
 
This was interesting as well:

CenterPoint Energy’s primary outage management system is currently offline. They are currently only able to provide the number of customers out across their entire service territory.

which lists 2.2M.
 
Subdood said:
Now 2.7mm customers with no grid power, so how many people would that be? With an average of what 3-4 people in each dwelling, maybe 8-10 million people in the dark?

First the Houston derecho from a few months ago and now this. Imagine the insurance premium surge for folks there.

poweroutage.us

Texas Power Outages Map

PowerOutage.us tracks, records, and aggregates power outages across the United States.
poweroutage.us poweroutage.us
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As of 2023 the average US household is 2.51 people. So maybe 6.8 million without power.
 
It rained heavy in the nickel city this weekend.
The eavestrough over flowed...
This is the second time this has happened in the past year from heavy winds blowing leaves and needles from a red pine on my roof

Its also been hot and humid.
 
DPC said:
Its also been hot and humid.
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years ago it seemed we could get through the summer by opening windows overnight, and close them up for the day,
Maybe I am getting older and less tolerant, but glad I installed the 24k ducted Senville minisplit this year, and yup running it on solar put (another) huge grin on my face.
 
rhino said:
This was interesting as well:

CenterPoint Energy’s primary outage management system is currently offline. They are currently only able to provide the number of customers out across their entire service territory.

which lists 2.2M.
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They need an outage outage management system. For when their outage management system goes down.
 
rhino said:
This was interesting as well:

CenterPoint Energy’s primary outage management system is currently offline. They are currently only able to provide the number of customers out across their entire service territory.

which lists 2.2M.
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That might reduce the number of complaints. No power? Pound sand.
 
I think there's a fairly high demand for a small/cheap battery backed hybrid system (say, a 5kwhr server battery and a Growatt SPH3600) that utilities could provide to their customers for even cheaper. You can get the parts for that for $2500. Utility sells it for $1000 with the caveat that they get to control it while the power's on. That way:

1) The utility can report much higher reliabilities for their customers, since their equipment would be keeping the power on during short outages
2) The utility can use it for demand response, thereby reducing the need to buy new generation and/or run their peakers
3) People like it because it provides backup power in cases like this
 
billvon said:
I think there's a fairly high demand for a small/cheap battery backed hybrid system (say, a 5kwhr server battery and a Growatt SPH3600) that utilities could provide to their customers for even cheaper. You can get the parts for that for $2500. Utility sells it for $1000 with the caveat that they get to control it while the power's on. That way:

1) The utility can report much higher reliabilities for their customers, since their equipment would be keeping the power on during short outages
2) The utility can use it for demand response, thereby reducing the need to buy new generation and/or run their peakers
3) People like it because it provides backup power in cases like this
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I think the utilities will smarten up and start doing that eventually. I think they are trying to take control of solar in California from what I have read. Use it to their advantage, etc. Tell me if I am wrong!
In Indiana they are not being smart about it. The utility basically controls the politicians who make the rules. Net metering in Indiana is a joke.
 
CenterPoint (that covers where almost all the power outage is) seems like they are way more concerned about making money than worrying about reliability of their grid. They've made $1B+ in profits in previous years and pay their executives $10M+ a year.
 
Dave911 said:
Apparently Centerpoint didnt think to plan for serious outages. I bet they are saving money! 🤪
www.khou.com

CenterPoint admits thousands of out-of-town repair crews weren't staged in the Houston area ahead of Hurricane Beryl

CenterPoint said Monday that it had mobilized thousands of crews to assess and repair damage caused by the Category 1 storm. But most of them aren't in Houston yet.
www.khou.com www.khou.com
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Absolutely shameless incompetence. Rolled the dice oops so sorry everybody.
 
Brucey said:
Absolutely shameless incompetence. Rolled the dice oops so sorry everybody.
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Yes, its really bad. It can be very difficult for people who dont have the means to leave for a while to do without power. I cant imagine Houston in the summer humidity without power.
Id be looking for different accomodations.
Its says its 95 in Houston right now.
 
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