Texas Crisis Highlights Grid Vulnerabilities

作     者：Mitch Leslie Mitch Leslie

作者机构：机构不详 

出 版 物：《Engineering》 (工程（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第7卷第10期

页      面：1348-1350页

核心收录：

学科分类：080802[工学-电力系统及其自动化] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 

主　　题：Texas disaster equipped 

摘      要：In February 2021,during a massive blackout in Texas,USA,a man made the news for using his hybrid Ford F-150 pickup truck,a model equipped with a generator,to power his house for three days[1].Other hybrid F-150 owners followed suit,and Ford requested that its Texas dealerships lend out the trucks on their lots so that more people could access these mini-power stations during the week-long disaster[2].That some residents had to rely on their pickup trucks to provide electricity for their homes illustrates the severity of the grid crisis that paralyzed *** an average of 42 h,69%of Texans had no electricity(Fig.1)[3],leaving many homes without heat as temperatures fell to record *** half of the population also lacked running water because water plants lost power[3].According to the state’s figures,hypothermia,carbon monoxide poisoning,and other storm-related causes exacerbated by the power outage killed at least 210 people[4],but one analysis put the death toll at 700[5].The economic price tag,including damage to homes and businesses from burst pipes,may be as high as 200 billion USD[6].