Possibly fuel starved because the compressors used in gas pipelines were converted to electric rather than gas because of emissions. Some of those compressors may have lost power and that caused cascading failures.
More information seems to be coming out pretty often now.
If only there was some sort of hydrocarbon available to power a backup system. For some reason thoughts keep drifting back the the USSR circa early 1990s
Gas compressors at my utility are electric; we have black-start capable (diesel) generators which in the event of a loss of station power are "supposed" to start but, good luck with that. And performing an actual black start is very tricky indeed for a variety of reasons. Adding in all of the weather issues that probably rendered their (likely non-winterized) backup equipment even less reliable than ours in my balmy area and, well... yeah, they were fucked.
Possibly fuel starved because the compressors used in gas pipelines were converted to electric rather than gas because of emissions. Some of those compressors may have lost power and that caused cascading failures.
More information seems to be coming out pretty often now.
If only there was some sort of hydrocarbon available to power a backup system. For some reason thoughts keep drifting back the the USSR circa early 1990s
Gas compressors at my utility are electric; we have black-start capable (diesel) generators which in the event of a loss of station power are "supposed" to start but, good luck with that. And performing an actual black start is very tricky indeed for a variety of reasons. Adding in all of the weather issues that probably rendered their (likely non-winterized) backup equipment even less reliable than ours in my balmy area and, well... yeah, they were fucked.
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