OPINION: Wild winds and dropping temperatures with blackouts have been caused by wind and falling trees. There are solutions, writes Alaska energy specialist Art Nash.
A solar panel provides power to Dan and Fulvia Lowe's off-grid home on the Anchorage hillside on Oct. 23, 2013.
In early 2021, rolling blackouts and natural gas cutoffs through the Lone Star state were required to keep the entire electrical grid from crashing. Yet this triage action contributed to many homeowners temporarily abandoning their homes when the interior temperature fell — and often without turning off the pressurized municipal water supply just before exiting. When above freezing temps returned without occupants, burst pipes caused subsequent home flood damage in many residential areas.
There are solutions. One is to increase the amount of prosumers ; these are ordinary residents who produce as well as consume electricity, whether by combusting fossil fuels or via renewable means. Net metering, in cases where there is decent parity for a person who creates some amount of electricity often through solar, wind, wood burning or micro-hydro to sell it back to the local utility can incentivize homeowners to be prosumers.
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