The holiday oil that affected the EE. UU. y avanzaba este jueves hacia el noreste dejó esta semana más de 600,000 hogare and business without electricity in Texas, the premier producer of petroleum and gas in the country.
In fact, millions of people who are unfaithful have been using it for the last few days, gates, gas generators and their own carriages.
The crisis has led to an increase in electricity consumption in the states of the EE. UU., provoked by a hot holiday, marked by polar temperatures and snow torrents.
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Although Texas is the most energetic country in the United States, it has a continental shelf that has its own independent energy chain, the day before it discovered the failure of its front end to extreme temperatures and climatic effects.
Texas, 29 times of the inhabitants, the experimental las peores is difficult to satisfy, there are various power plants that operate on natural gas, energy or nuclear energy and that cities such as Austin and Houston are experiencing a disruption in their operation due to these extreme conditions.
Ercot, the state-of-the-art energy distribution company in Texas, declared the state of emergency during Monday night and Monday, as a precaution, shortening energy sources to avoid red saturation. Family homes are provided with electricity for a maximum of 48 hours when the thermometer is on low-visibility markets.
The night of the high schools, the company says that the house restored the energy to the 1.6 million hogares, and aggregated that staba working. “The 24 hours of the day to restore energy for the Texans”. For more than 500,000 people without electricity in these games, according to the PowerOutage.us site.
According to the AFP agency, the tortoises were killed by an electrician over the millions of Texas workers, both affected north of Mexico.
The Republican governor of this state, Greg Abbott, criticized the crisis management by Ercot. “Texas residents are getting private electricity or heating at the moment our state is experiencing freezing temperatures and a severe winter climate. Esto is unacceptable “, Abbott affirm martes, al tiempo que anuncio un un Sarkathión sobre Ercot. For its part, the federal agency collects the tariffs on electricity and natural gas as well as announces that it will analyze the reasons for the short cuts “En los proximos días”.
But some experts believe that the problem is entirely structural. “Ercot can not invest in equipment. Only you can manage the red ”, dijo Ed Hirs, Professor of Economics at the University of Houston.
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Según Hirs, Texas, which generally extends its maximum point in energy activity to fines of boreal verona, is not prepared for a holiday season. “No hooihoeveelheden generators forecast to satisfy a strong demand increase in demand”, dijo.
Texas is the energetic pulp of EE. UU. and, for a change, the mayor’s producer of crude oil and natural gas from the country, too, is a peso in ecological and solar energy. This ‘Independentcia’ energetic, it is detachable in other situations, the game against in moments of crisis, and its energy supply is disconnected from the rest of the country, because it can not import energy.
The actual crisis is trying to alleviate the limits of this system. ‘It is an advertisement for the world that includes regions where energy is abundant can have problems and can be catastrophic”, Dijo Michael Webber, professor at the University of Texas and director of science at the Grupo Engie, conede in Paris.
The consequences of the holiday season, which saw decades of deaths in all of EE. UU., Has been sent to states as Mississippi, Louisiana, Oregon and Kentucky, to register these juvenile energy courts. In New York, even a 13 cm thick snowfall is expected, with 8 cm higher in the hay barn, according to the National Meteorological Service. In addition, the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, also announced the closure of various evacuation sites.
A total of 100 millone the personas residing in El Medio Oeste de EE. UU. if he has been affected by inverted torments.
AFP Y EFE
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