Re: RE: engine failure
This is mostly false: Texas has two low-capacity interconnects to the Eastern Interconnect (i.e. the grid for the eastern states of the US), and two low-capacity interconnects to Mexico.
Since someone will quibble about the words "low-capacity":
Texas power generation capacity: ~34,000MW
Texas North DC Tie (to Eastern Grid): ~220MW
Texas East DC Tie (to Eastern Grid): ~600MW
Texas Railroad DC Tie (to Mexico): ~300MW
Texas Laredo DC Tie (to Mexico): ~100MW.
Total tie capacity (either importing or exporting): 1,220MW aka 3.6% of the state's generating capacity.
30% of the capacity was offline because of the wrong type of snow...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
