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ferret wrote:  I think their energy commission oughta go on a road trip to Edmonton and learn a thing or two.

Plan B... thanks. Silly buggers. They need a plan B.

cerebrozo wrote:

ferret wrote:  I think their energy commission oughta go on a road trip to Edmonton and learn a thing or two.

Plan B... thanks. Silly buggers. They need a plan B.

Question for you: Would officials in Edmonton be prepared to deal with power problems that would occur if temperatures there were to exceed 40° (104°F) for five consecutive days?

BisbeeGal wrote:

cerebrozo wrote:

ferret wrote:  I think their energy commission oughta go on a road trip to Edmonton and learn a thing or two.

Plan B... thanks. Silly buggers. They need a plan B.

Question for you: Would officials in Edmonton be prepared to deal with power problems that would occur if temperatures there were to exceed 40° (104°F) for five consecutive days?

Edmonton and other provinces, as well as almost all US states, maintain cross-province and cross-state grid share systems.  Canada and the US also share access to each others grid, when blackouts occur in either country.  

Texas, being Texas, never wanted to share with its neighbors, so it designed a stand-alone energy grid.  If they had a shared grid system as do all other US states, it would have been subject to regulatory laws (including having to share).  Texas, being Texas, felt it was better than its neighbors and felt its stand-alone system would work just fine for Texas with the added bonus of never having to share with its neighbors.

So, there they are, cold, frozen and unable to get any aid from their neighbors.  Just the way they wanted it.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/16/texas-power-grid-why-state-has-its-own-operated-ercot/6765007002/

cerebrozo wrote:

ferret wrote:  I think their energy commission oughta go on a road trip to Edmonton and learn a thing or two.

Plan B... thanks. Silly buggers. They need a plan B.

Question for you: Would officials in Edmonton be prepared to deal with power problems that would occur if temperatures there were to exceed 40° (104°F) for five consecutive days?

ferret wrote:Joe Biden just declared Texas a major disaster and help is on the way...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-declares-texas-a-major-disaster-after-winter-storms-devastated-the-state/ar-BB1dRpFC?ocid=Peregrine

And they didn't even vote for him.

ferret wrote:Joe Biden just declared Texas a major disaster and help is on the way...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-declares-texas-a-major-disaster-after-winter-storms-devastated-the-state/ar-BB1dRpFC?ocid=Peregrine

And they didn't even vote for him.

cerebrozo wrote:

ferret wrote:  I think their energy commission oughta go on a road trip to Edmonton and learn a thing or two.

Plan B... thanks. Silly buggers. They need a plan B.

Question for you: Would officials in Edmonton be prepared to deal with power problems that would occur if temperatures there were to exceed 40° (104°F) for five consecutive days?

cerebrozo wrote:

BisbeeGal wrote:

cerebrozo wrote:

ferret wrote:  I think their energy commission oughta go on a road trip to Edmonton and learn a thing or two.

Plan B... thanks. Silly buggers. They need a plan B.

Question for you: Would officials in Edmonton be prepared to deal with power problems that would occur if temperatures there were to exceed 40° (104°F) for five consecutive days?

Edmonton and other provinces, as well as almost all US states, maintain cross-province and cross-state grid share systems.  Canada and the US also share access to each others grid, when blackouts occur in either country.  

Texas, being Texas, never wanted to share with its neighbors, so it designed a stand-alone energy grid.  If they had a shared grid system as do all other US states, it would have been subject to regulatory laws (including having to share).  Texas, being Texas, felt it was better than its neighbors and felt its stand-alone system would work just fine for Texas with the added bonus of never having to share with its neighbors.

So, there they are, cold, frozen and unable to get any aid from their neighbors.  Just the way they wanted it.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/16/texas-power-grid-why-state-has-its-own-operated-ercot/6765007002/

I understand Canada has a superior supply system.  But I was posing a rhetorical question: To what extent is the power grid in the north designed with heat dissipation and cooling mechanisms needed to prevent damage to distribution and transmission equipment that would be caused by an extended period of high temperatures?

mudgirl wrote:

ferret wrote:Considering the number of hurricanes that Texas gets, seceding from the U.S. and FEMA help should not be under consideration. They just gotta learn how to share. No man (state) is an island.

Yeah, but that would smack of the dreaded 'socialism'  they're so terrified of.

It's every man for himself country, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, if I can afford to fly off to warmer climes, you can too, you're just too dumb and lazy to get a cushy job like mine.

Let them eat cake (or ice)............

mudgirl wrote:

cerebrozo wrote:  But I was posing a rhetorical question: To what extent is the power grid in the north designed with heat dissipation and cooling mechanisms needed to prevent damage to distribution and transmission equipment that would be caused by an extended period of high temperatures?

You seem to be rather uninformed about Canadian weather. There are plenty of places that get that hot in the summer in Canada. In the interior of British Columbia where I was picking fruit for several summers, there was about 5 days straight of those temps. People were hot, but no one considered it some disaster situation and the infrastructure certainly didn't break down.

We just spent the days at the river when we were done with work.