By Paul Homewood
Most people probably don’t realise just how close Texas came to disaster this week. According to ERCOT officials:
The grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic, uncontrolled failure that could have left residents without power for months.
“It needed to be addressed immediately,” Bill Magness, president of ERCOT, said of the rolling blackouts that have lasted days rather than hours. “It was seconds and minutes [from possible failure] given the amount of generation that was coming off the system.”
He added if ERCOT had waited to cut the power “then what happens in that next minute might be that three more [power generation] units come offline, and then you’re sunk..
If the grid had completely gone down it could have taken months to repair.
We are not tgalking about a few temporary blackouts, as James Burke warned us back in the 1960s:
And, of…
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