Nothing. To make matters worse the city lost power to the pumps that supply water to the entire city. So around 10 am we lost everything. Faucets had a slow trickle from I guess the head pressure in the system from the tanks. From what I've read online and the few people I've talked to there is nothing we can do at this point. Lines are froze and they will not thaw for days most likely. The good news is our house uses PEX tubing and from what I read this stuff can handle a feeze and thaw pretty well. We'll see when the thaw happens. Once it thaws and I find leaks I'll have to isolate water to the house from the street. Good news is our power stayed on most of the day. My daughter who is 5 min away has been without power since 3am. They came over and pulled from my wood pile and have been burning the fire place all day. This is a real mess. New Winter Storm Waring in effect thru Thursday with more snow expected.
Do you still have gas? If so you are lucky.
This is the second time that I know of where ERCOT has lost all wind generation due to ice on the blades. The last time ERCOT had purposely left the blade heaters off, and after the investigation by NERC, ERCOT was heavily fined, like millions. I think that was in 2017.. but I’ve slept a few times since then.
Since ERCOT is overly reliant on wind energy (renewable) when they lost their wind generation the system voltage decayed causing and under frequency load shedding event, but hat was not enough and the system voltage collapsed, as well as manual load shedding. It is my understanding that ERCOT lost roughly 15,000 Megawatts through UF relay or manual load shedding. In the areas where manual load shedding occurred they have been keeping customers on for a couple of hours, then off for several hours then back on.
To make matters worse, when the system voltage decayed and collapsed the natural gas pumping stations went down, so now they can’t get their peaking gas turbines on line as there is insufficient gas pressure, and that’s assuming they have black start capability.
ERCOT is basically a stand alone entity, and the last time I checked they had one very small tie to WECC for restart power.
The name of the company that brought this to you? “The Texas commission for reliable energy”. Cant make this stuff up!
Im sorry you’re having to go through this.. hope you will be back on soon...I can tell you for sure the people who run the system are doing everything they can to get your power back on, that’s what they do.
