15 US states blackout. The network is failing and the damage extends to Mexico
In the US, the electricity grid, often also used for heating, is failing due to a mix of excess demand due to a cold wave and a grid that, due to lack of maintenance, has not proved to be up to par.
Here are some facts that are happening in the US right now:
- The electricity grid crisis spreads to Mexico
- 15 states have power outages due to extreme weather conditions
- Governor Greg Abbott asks liquid natural gas exporter to limit gas intake to leave more to the state grid;
- 4.423 million electricity company customers in Texas without power
- Bloomberg's Javier Blas warns that "blackouts have spread again"
- The General Motors Arlington factory is shut down due to a power failure
- Oncor Electric Delivery warns of “controlled outages” throughout the state
- Temperatures in Tyler, Texas -20 C Tuesday morning
- ERCOT (the Texas grid operator) hopes to restore power by returning more generators to the grid
- The Southwest Power Pool said the blackouts will continue for the second day
- Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo tweets about a cold death.
- Refinitiv data shows Arctic air will remain in Texas until the end of the week
- Wholesale prices for ERCOT electricity exceeded $ 9,000 per megawatt hour overnight
- Texas prepares for the second winter storm
As we read, a large portion of the Southwestern United States is having major energy management problems, just as a series of major polar storms are raging over the area. We have 4.5 million users without electricity in Texas, but also 230,000 in Oregon, 144,000 in Kentucky, 120,000 in Louisiana, 95,000 in West Virginia.
A disaster that shows the great fragility of complex systems and which has an effect not only on energy prices, but also on the industrial production of those areas, paradoxically also on energy. In Texas, a refinery had to shut down because of the cold and lack of energy.
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