Showing posts with label power outage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power outage. Show all posts

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Monday, February 27, 2023

Michigan power outage update: Day 5

 Over 100k still out in DTE service area in the east, 28k in the Consumers Energy service area in the south.

Pretty shocking multi-day outage, with overnight lows averaging 26F for the last five nights.




Sunday, February 26, 2023

Michigan power outage update

 Consumers Energy outages: ~36k still affected (~90k restored overnight).

DTE outages: ~279k still affected (~65k restored overnight).

This evening it will be four days since the power went out for these people.

 


 

Saturday, February 25, 2023

California has power outages because it is insane and has weather, Michigan has power outages because it has weather and is insane

 127k of the current Michigan outages belong to Consumers Energy, 344k to DTE in the Detroit area.

Peak outages for Consumers Energy were ~237k at one point in this event.

Progress overnight: Just 12k restored for Consumers Energy.

In the last 20 years Michigan ranks 4th overall for total outages, but California remains the big daddy for outages, followed by Texas and New York.






Friday, February 24, 2023

Power outage due to ice storm just gets worse for Consumers Energy customers in Michigan, so they run PR ads on YouTube while it's happening

 Earlier in the day there were 137k without power.

Tonight there are 139k. 

I wouldn't have thought about it again today but for the YouTube ad which interrupted my evening video.

Consumers Energy should spend more money actually helping people instead of running a propaganda operation.

People are freezing their butts down there. It's 25F in the outage area.

DTE in the Detroit area is actually making some progress restoring power. Looks like ~200k have been restored since earlier in the day, but hundreds of thousands remain without power.

 


 


Thursday, December 29, 2022

There was nothing wrong with the coal or natural gas plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority: It was one-off wind damage and too many far-flung customers dependent on its electricity for heat

 Cold weather pushed up electricity use in TVA's seven-state region where more than 60% of homes are heated by electricity. ...

TVA Chief Operating Officer Don Moul is heading an investigation of the problems that led to the power outages last week. Moul said in a telephone interview that high winds damaged several of TVA's protective structures at the Cumberland plant and several gas-fired combustion turbines used for such peak power periods. TVA's directive to local power companies to cut some of their energy use was the most efficient means to respond to the inadequate energy supply, Moul said.


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The left, of course, is blaming the fossil fuels themselves instead of wind damage to existing energy infrastructure, whose maintenance has been neglected in the rage for so-called green energy and against coal:


"[T]he mandatory blackouts were due to coal and gas failures," [Amy] Kelly [the Tennessee representative for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign] said.

     

The hysteria of this prejudiced response is matched, however, by the feckless customers of the federally-run utility, whose only care is that their power was cut when it was 5 degrees F outside, and on Christmas Eve:

 

"Why would anyone in their right mind decide it is a GOOD idea to have rolling blackouts today? First of all, it is a whopping 5 degrees outside and second, it is Christmas Eve ... This is ridiculous."




Sunday, December 25, 2022

Tennessee has had plenty of much colder temperatures than this Christmas and never had to turn off the power before, but that was before they went insane

 What we know: TVA ordered rolling blackouts for the first time in 90 years amid freezing temps


Tennessee Valley Authority retired 3,370 MW of coal electric power capacity in 2012, 2017, and 2018.

The reason for that isn't because the plants were old, built in the 1950s. TVA still operates a bunch of much older hydroelectric plants dating back as far as 1911.

It's pure anti-fossil fuel ideology driving that, and foolishly allocating new capacity to solar and wind, which can't cut it.

And that's why they had to shut off the power in Tennessee for the first time.

The damn fools got 0.7 inches of snow and said it was one inch deep, too.

 




Saturday, December 24, 2022

Friday, December 23, 2022

Joe Biden's America two days before Christmas is a third world patchwork of power outages all over the place

About 1.04 million without power this morning.

It's going to be a rough Christmas Eve without power with forecast real lows in the single digits.

 




Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Two days after the storm blew threw Michigan is still #1 for power outages in the US this afternoon

187k are affected in the service area of DTE energy on the east side of the state right now, and 37k are affected in the Consumers Energy service area.

 



Monday, July 11, 2022

Texans face rolling blackouts because "wind generation is currently generating significantly less than what it historically generated in this time period"

 Actually, it's because Texas retired reliable sources of electricity from coal and natural gas for unreliable "green energy".

The New York Times as usual just leaves that part out, here:

The regulator forecast demand in Texas to peak at 79,671 megawatts, just short of the 80,168 megawatts that will be available.

That's a forecast margin of just 497 megawatts.

Texas has retired 6,453 megawatts of coal generation capacity since 2017 and added 3,945 megawatts of wind generation capacity.

In addition Texas has retired 2,316 megawatts of natural gas generation capacity since 2008 and added 3,425 megawatts of solar generation capacity since 2010.

Not only is Texas short a net 1,399 megawatts of generation capacity over the period, if the wind doesn't blow it's potentially short another 3,945 megawatts, and another 3,425 megawatts if the sun don't shine.

Way to go, Brownie.