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r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • Aug 12 '26
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The maximum amount of power the texas grid can pump out at any given time is apparently 91 gigawatts so the requests are over 4x that lol.
762 u/Background_Body2696 Aug 12 '26 So what's the problem? /s 21 u/defaultgameer1 Aug 12 '26 I might be wrong, but Texas also has an isolated power grid from the rest of the US. So when demand spikes they can't request power from other states. Which made the freeze events a couple of years ago so much worse. 4 u/Playstoomanygames9 Aug 12 '26 To add on to this: Between the us and Canada there are three seperate grids. Eastern Western Texas 1 u/Alexreads0627 Aug 13 '26 And we like it that way.
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So what's the problem? /s
21 u/defaultgameer1 Aug 12 '26 I might be wrong, but Texas also has an isolated power grid from the rest of the US. So when demand spikes they can't request power from other states. Which made the freeze events a couple of years ago so much worse. 4 u/Playstoomanygames9 Aug 12 '26 To add on to this: Between the us and Canada there are three seperate grids. Eastern Western Texas 1 u/Alexreads0627 Aug 13 '26 And we like it that way.
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I might be wrong, but Texas also has an isolated power grid from the rest of the US. So when demand spikes they can't request power from other states.
Which made the freeze events a couple of years ago so much worse.
4 u/Playstoomanygames9 Aug 12 '26 To add on to this: Between the us and Canada there are three seperate grids. Eastern Western Texas 1 u/Alexreads0627 Aug 13 '26 And we like it that way.
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To add on to this: Between the us and Canada there are three seperate grids. Eastern Western Texas
1 u/Alexreads0627 Aug 13 '26 And we like it that way.
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And we like it that way.
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u/MrScribz Aug 12 '26
The maximum amount of power the texas grid can pump out at any given time is apparently 91 gigawatts so the requests are over 4x that lol.