Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Catherine Traywick Profile picture
Catherine Traywick
@ctraywick
Editor covering climate + power + renewables for @Bloomberg @Business | Fled D.C. for the intermountain West | RTs≠endorsements | ctraywick@bloomberg.net
Feb 20, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
WHAT HAPPENED IN TEXAS? Here's our minute-by-minute account of went wrong.

You know the basics: Cold forced generators offline.

But there are some surprises too, such as....

bloomberg.com/news/features/… Frequency -- a measure of electricity flow on the grid -- fell to a dangerously low level in the minutes before the blackouts.

It fell so fast and so low -- and then continued to fluctuate -- that some generators think it may have forced some new plants offline.
Feb 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
TEXAS UPDATE: Nearly 11GW of load n has been restored since yesterday afternoon. That's enough to power 2.2 million homes.

Ercot said today that solar played key role, allowing them to bring customers back more quickly than expected

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Image And for those of you in Texas who were/are without power for days, Ercot did acknowledge that rotating the outages became impossible because so much generation was offline.

About 40GW of generation remains offline: 23.5 GW thermal (gas/coal), 16.5GW of renewables
Feb 17, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
TEXAS UPDATE: We're piecing together what went down in Texas on Sunday night, hours before the blackouts began -- and trying to figure out when power will come back.

Here's what we know so far...

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Around 11pm on Sunday, grid operator @ERCOT_ISO believed it had the situation in hand. Then power generators began suddenly and rapidly tripping offline.

Soon after, the flow of power on the grid dipped -- a situation that could lead to "catastrophic blackouts"