‘Woke up sweating’: Texas power companies remotely raise temperatures on people using their smart thermostats Smart thermostats can be remotely adjusted during periods of high energy demand. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/texas-remote-controlled-smart-thermostats/
California declared that people should expect blackouts this weekend because they have to shut of the electricity rather than cause fires or blow up the system. As previously stated, not sure the progressives have the answer, they just get better media coverage when they have problems and everyone deflects it over to climate change. In other words, if the electricity goes out in Texas it is due to conservatives/republicians and if it goes out in lefty California they divert to climate change so conservatives caused it there too. Convenient. It is good to be a lefty when it comes to media reporting.
Hey Texas.... even Canada has a few words for you and some mockery... BC Hydro says it will weather heatwave, customers won't see outages like in some U.S. states BC Hydro says despite the pressure across the Western grid, it will continue to deliver power to its customers because it has more than enough energy to meet the increased demand. https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-hy...mers-wont-see-outages-like-in-some-u-s-states
They turn the power off here too. In a big enough storm they shut off power or there would be fires, exploding transformers and all kinds of electrocutions. Afterwards they inspect then reenergize sections that are intact and start repairing the rest. Its actually the least risk to the population to turn off the grid in a hurricane. If it was left energized it would take months to restore power instead of weeks. So there is by definition an expectation here that we lose power for 2 weeks minimum. Its just how it works in Florida.
Microgrids daisy chained together or hooked to the grid but able to function standalone are the wave of the future which has in fact already arrived. Used to be that micro-grid development was for remote off-grid communities who do not have access to the state or national grid but that has all changed. Now you have communities/corporations such as in California that want to be on the grid but also want to be able to keep functioning as the state and national grids become increasingly unstable due to overload, cyberattack etc and also cause lots of forest fires. People are dumping on Texas as though they are independent cowboys for having their own grid and not being progressive by being on the grid. Nope, they have problems within their own grid which need to be fixed but every community and state needs to have a functioning system that is not dependent on the national grid when some 15 year old hacker in Crapistan decides to take the east or west coast down. Getting everybody on electric vehicles will not help either. It becomes yet another dimension of your life that is down and out when the national or regional grid is down and out. Eventually many of the local microgrids will be powered by hydrogen- needs a few more years on it. Bloom Energy, Ballard Power, Fuel Cell, type companies are making progress. Hopefully, a trillion dollar porkulus infrastructure program will at least carve out some bucks to advance that cause. That would be the hope anyway.
"As temperatures hit triple digits during California's heat wave last week, the state's power grid operators encouraged residents to relieve pressure on the grid by charging their electric vehicles before the peak energy use times of day." And let me ask the party of intellectuals, where do you think the magic electricity comes from?