The Grid -- A Tale Of Two States -- September 7, 2022

Texas:

• ERCOT breaks power demand record for 11th time this summer -- July 20, 2022
• no rolling brownouts; no blackouts (needs to be fact-checked); the grid kept on trucking this summer
• for the first time in Texas' grid history, demand exceeded 80,000 MW for a moment shortly after 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 20, 2022 -- 80,000 MW
• net summer capacity: 128,947 MW -- link here; 65% more than California's net summer capacity
• capacity / record demand = 80,000 / 128,947 =  62%
  
• population: 30 million
• 270,000 square miles -- almost 65% larger than California; much longer distances to carry the grid;
  

California:

• limited blackouts, last night, Tuesday evening, September 7, 2022
• must have been a hundred-thousand MW if Texas set a record at 80,000 MW
• LOL: California's record that caused blackouts and a need to curtail at EV charging -- 52,061 MW
• are you kidding me?
• a state with one of the highest state income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and utility fees and still couldn't meet demand for 52,061 MW
• Texas: no state income tax; one of the lowest electric rates in the country (deregulated); and still able to meet demand for 80,000 MW -- 54% greater than California's demand.
• link: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/09/07/california-experiences-limited-blackouts-as-power-demand-hits-record/.
• net summer capacity: 78,055 MW -- link here.
• capacity / record demand = 52,061 / 78,055 =  67%
• population: at 40 million, a user base 33% greater than that of Texas (great fee base)
  
• there is nothing preventing California from installing the same capacity and the same resource mix as Texas
• size: 165,000 square miles 
• one has to ask: what has the state been doing all these years?

All my posts are done quickly: there will be content and typographical errors. If anything on any of my posts is important to you, go to the source. If/when I find typographical / content errors, I will correct them.   

On a note like this, fact checking is essential. I'll have Sophia do that when she gets home from school.

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