Five dead and drivers trapped after 100 car pile-up on icy Texas freeway
Five dead and drivers trapped after 100 car pile-up on icy Texas freeway
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Five dead and drivers trapped after 100 car pile-up on icy Texas freeway
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‘Absolute carnage’: Coquihalla Highway reopens near Hope after multi-car crash claims life
One person died at the scene and five others were sent to hospital following the 20-vehicle pileup
Canada sized. A trucker from Surrey named Krishna died for your sins.
‘Absolute carnage’: Coquihalla Highway reopens near Hope after multi-car crash claims life
One person died at the scene and five others were sent to hospital following the 20-vehicle pileupvancouversun.com
Canada sized. A trucker from Surrey named Krishna died for your sins.
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Texas starts rolling power outages to cope with deep freeze
Author of the article:Reuters
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Publishing date:Feb 15, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 1 minute read
Snowfall in Dallas, Texas. PHOTO BY SCREENSHOT /Twitter/alfonslopeztena
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The state of Texas continued to reel under a deep freeze, leaving utilities scrambling to meet record power demand and forcing the state’s grid operator to enforce rotating blackouts early on Monday.
Apart from Texas, much of the United States from the Pacific Northwest through the Great Plains and into the mid-Atlantic states has been in the grip of bone-chilling weather over the weekend, featuring snow, sleet and freezing rain.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has sought to cut power use in response to winter record of 69,150 MW on Sunday evening, more than 3,200 MW higher than the previous winter peak in January 2018.
Reserves have dropped below 1,000 MW and transmission companies have been ordered to reduce demand on system, ERCOT said.
“Traffic lights and other infrastructure may be temporarily without power,” the agency said on Twitter.
A level three emergency notice was issued by the regulator, urging customers to limit power usage and prevent an uncontrolled system-wide outage.
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The National Weather Service said that an Arctic air mass had spread southwards, well beyond areas accustomed to freezing weather, with winter storm warnings posted for most of the Gulf Coast region, Oklahoma and Missouri.
The storms knocked out nearly half the wind power generation capacity of Texas on Sunday.
Of the 25,000-plus megawatts of wind power capacity normally available in Texas, 12,000 megawatts was out of service on Sunday morning, an ERCOT spokeswoman said.
Wind generation ranks as the second-largest source of electricity in Texas, accounting for 23% of state power supplies last year behind natural gas, which served 45%, ERCOT estimates.
Energy traders last week said that some 5-minute power prices in Texas approached $4,000 per megawatt hour. That compares with an Ercot North average of $26 in 2020.
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Author of the article:Reuters
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Publishing date:Feb 15, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 1 minute read
Snowfall in Dallas, Texas. PHOTO BY SCREENSHOT /Twitter/alfonslopeztena
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The state of Texas continued to reel under a deep freeze, leaving utilities scrambling to meet record power demand and forcing the state’s grid operator to enforce rotating blackouts early on Monday.
Apart from Texas, much of the United States from the Pacific Northwest through the Great Plains and into the mid-Atlantic states has been in the grip of bone-chilling weather over the weekend, featuring snow, sleet and freezing rain.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has sought to cut power use in response to winter record of 69,150 MW on Sunday evening, more than 3,200 MW higher than the previous winter peak in January 2018.
Reserves have dropped below 1,000 MW and transmission companies have been ordered to reduce demand on system, ERCOT said.
“Traffic lights and other infrastructure may be temporarily without power,” the agency said on Twitter.
A level three emergency notice was issued by the regulator, urging customers to limit power usage and prevent an uncontrolled system-wide outage.
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The National Weather Service said that an Arctic air mass had spread southwards, well beyond areas accustomed to freezing weather, with winter storm warnings posted for most of the Gulf Coast region, Oklahoma and Missouri.
The storms knocked out nearly half the wind power generation capacity of Texas on Sunday.
Of the 25,000-plus megawatts of wind power capacity normally available in Texas, 12,000 megawatts was out of service on Sunday morning, an ERCOT spokeswoman said.
Wind generation ranks as the second-largest source of electricity in Texas, accounting for 23% of state power supplies last year behind natural gas, which served 45%, ERCOT estimates.
Energy traders last week said that some 5-minute power prices in Texas approached $4,000 per megawatt hour. That compares with an Ercot North average of $26 in 2020.
Cold snap leaves 8 million in Texas, Mexico without power
A rare deep freeze in Texas that raised demand for power forced the state’s electric grid operator on Monday to impose rotating blackouts, leaving 4 million…
Next they will sue BC for not providing them with free power like California did.Texas starts rolling power outages to cope with deep freeze
Author of the article:Reuters
Reuters
Publishing date:Feb 15, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 1 minute read
Snowfall in Dallas, Texas. PHOTO BY SCREENSHOT /Twitter/alfonslopeztena
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The state of Texas continued to reel under a deep freeze, leaving utilities scrambling to meet record power demand and forcing the state’s grid operator to enforce rotating blackouts early on Monday.
Apart from Texas, much of the United States from the Pacific Northwest through the Great Plains and into the mid-Atlantic states has been in the grip of bone-chilling weather over the weekend, featuring snow, sleet and freezing rain.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has sought to cut power use in response to winter record of 69,150 MW on Sunday evening, more than 3,200 MW higher than the previous winter peak in January 2018.
Reserves have dropped below 1,000 MW and transmission companies have been ordered to reduce demand on system, ERCOT said.
“Traffic lights and other infrastructure may be temporarily without power,” the agency said on Twitter.
A level three emergency notice was issued by the regulator, urging customers to limit power usage and prevent an uncontrolled system-wide outage.
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The National Weather Service said that an Arctic air mass had spread southwards, well beyond areas accustomed to freezing weather, with winter storm warnings posted for most of the Gulf Coast region, Oklahoma and Missouri.
The storms knocked out nearly half the wind power generation capacity of Texas on Sunday.
Of the 25,000-plus megawatts of wind power capacity normally available in Texas, 12,000 megawatts was out of service on Sunday morning, an ERCOT spokeswoman said.
Wind generation ranks as the second-largest source of electricity in Texas, accounting for 23% of state power supplies last year behind natural gas, which served 45%, ERCOT estimates.
Energy traders last week said that some 5-minute power prices in Texas approached $4,000 per megawatt hour. That compares with an Ercot North average of $26 in 2020.
Cold snap leaves 8 million in Texas, Mexico without power
A rare deep freeze in Texas that raised demand for power forced the state’s electric grid operator on Monday to impose rotating blackouts, leaving 4 million…