💔 Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the recent severe wind storms in Houston. We stand with you during this challenging time and are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers. Stay strong, Houston. 🌟💪 #HoustonStrong #CommunitySupport #PrayingForHouston
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Leading the solar revolution as CEO @ Freedom Solar Power | Endurance Athlete | Native Texan
Much of Texas continues to clean up from Hurricane Beryl, and millions of Texans have no power — or air conditioning — in the teeth of this July heat. Our thoughts and prayers are with those suffering in its wake. This is yet another grim reminder that Texas is a target for extreme weather. State government, the private sector, and individual Texas families and business owners all must do more to prepare for, and build resilience against, these increasingly frequent emergencies. There’s a lot that goes into that, but distributed energy resources — such as rooftop solar panels backed up by battery units — have to be a big part of the solution: they let individuals and families generate their own electricity during blackouts, allow for community resilience hubs, and lower demand on the power grid when it’s stressed. Freedom Solar Power has hundreds of customers in the Houston region with solar and backup batteries; we’re very glad to have helped them keep power while weathering this storm. https://cnn.it/45X8r5H #Resilience #Beryl #PowerOutages #Solar #Storage #TxLege #Houston
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Following last night's devastating storms with hurricane-force winds, the damage across Texas is extensive. Initial recovery estimates of 24 to 48 hours have now extended to several days or even weeks due to significant transmission line damage, according to Harris County emergency officials and CenterPoint Energy. (source AP News) While we hope your power remains unaffected, we understand the critical need for reliable power, especially for businesses with high energy demands. If you're facing outages, Voltagrid can rapidly deploy a microgrid solution in days, not weeks, ensuring minimal disruption to your operations 1-888-508-1851. We wish Houston and Southeast Texas a swift recovery. Stay safe, and trust Voltagrid to keep the power on. #PoweringInnovation #HoustonStrong #GridSupport
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The destruction left in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton serves as a powerful reminder of the critical role utility teams play in helping communities recover and rebuild their lives across the country. In times of crisis, these dedicated professionals work tirelessly to restore power, water, and gas services – often in the toughest conditions – helping life return to normal for millions. What’s truly inspiring is seeing the unity within the utility industry. Even those utilities not directly impacted have stepped up, sending crews, equipment, and resources to support their fellow utilities. This collective effort demonstrates the spirit of cooperation and solidarity that defines this critical industry. We send our deepest appreciation to all utility teams on the frontlines and to those lending a helping hand. Your hard work is nothing short of heroic. Together, we continue to strengthen our communities, one restoration at a time. Read more about the rebuilding efforts: https://bit.ly/3NkM7dQ #Survalent #StormRecovery #CommunitySupport #HurricaneHelene #HurricaneMilton
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From planned events to natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, FirstNet's fleet of deployables help first responders connect and communicate. Learn more about these assets: FirstNet.gov/deployables
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While this video is cool to watch, the consequences of grid failure are far from cool. Natural disasters happen. They will continue to happen. Why not have a consistent, RELIABLE source of power to keep your operations running in a storm? Contact us for more information on how to weather-proof your business. #PowerSolutions #ResponsibleReliablePower #NoDowntime John Gorrell Zachary Soukup
Check out this shocking but real video that documents the collapse of the Houston Area Electric Grid during Hurricane Beryl. Each dot is a Ting sensor in a Houston neighborhood and the Ting network covers every neighborhood in Houston. The “exploding white dots” represent Ting network detected grid faults caused by trees touching wires, wires touching wires, wires and poles falling and grid equipment failing. As homes lose power they turn from white to red. This is very sad to see. It is clear that this grid was not ready for Beryl. The people of Houston are suffering as a result. At the peak more than 80% of homes in the Houston area lost power. Even now, 40% of homes in Harris County remain without power. The Whisker team is posting regular updates to help the people of Houston stay informed as this is the only source of real-time, neighborhood level information. This is a humanitarian crisis at this point and we sincerely hope that that power and lives can be restored to normal soon. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the catastrophic consequences of poor grid resilience. Ting data over the past 3 years indicates that homes in Houston are 2.5X more likely to experience a power outage compared to the average U.S. home. So the Houston area grid challenges are not new or unique to Beryl. We hope to leverage the power of Ting data to help utilities understand where grids are weak and stressed, and allow for smart and targeted investments to improve grid resilience. Society needs a resilient and reliable grid. Please keep the people of Houston in your thoughts and prayers. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong #gridresilience
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Fascinating article from Bloomberg discussing the continuous cycle of extreme weather in Texas as a microcosm of #climatechange and its impact around the world. These “compound events” are responsible for significant costs to the infrastructure, economy, and residents in Texas, but a resilient backup power solution will go a long way toward keeping businesses and communities powered up and safe amidst the chaos. A big thank you to Brian Sullivan, Eric Roston, David Wethe, and Joe Carroll for sharing their perspectives and in-depth research on this timely issue. After you read the article, follow the link below to learn how our natural gas #microgrids have delivered proven performance for Texas customers who have experienced long-duration outages from a winter cold snap or unexpected power losses from intense summer storms. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eKGPsm5i ##texasweather #gridsupport #resiliency #generators https://bit.ly/3xEIqeT
Texas' Extreme Weather Pileups Point to World's Climate Future
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CTO & SVP, Applied Technology Solutions & President, meshify at HSB | Board Director | Venture Capital LP | Angel Investor
Mesmerizing imagery… I hope this data will help ignite the transformation we urgently need.
Check out this shocking but real video that documents the collapse of the Houston Area Electric Grid during Hurricane Beryl. Each dot is a Ting sensor in a Houston neighborhood and the Ting network covers every neighborhood in Houston. The “exploding white dots” represent Ting network detected grid faults caused by trees touching wires, wires touching wires, wires and poles falling and grid equipment failing. As homes lose power they turn from white to red. This is very sad to see. It is clear that this grid was not ready for Beryl. The people of Houston are suffering as a result. At the peak more than 80% of homes in the Houston area lost power. Even now, 40% of homes in Harris County remain without power. The Whisker team is posting regular updates to help the people of Houston stay informed as this is the only source of real-time, neighborhood level information. This is a humanitarian crisis at this point and we sincerely hope that that power and lives can be restored to normal soon. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the catastrophic consequences of poor grid resilience. Ting data over the past 3 years indicates that homes in Houston are 2.5X more likely to experience a power outage compared to the average U.S. home. So the Houston area grid challenges are not new or unique to Beryl. We hope to leverage the power of Ting data to help utilities understand where grids are weak and stressed, and allow for smart and targeted investments to improve grid resilience. Society needs a resilient and reliable grid. Please keep the people of Houston in your thoughts and prayers. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong #gridresilience
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Helping climate-positive enterprises strategize, connect and grow | Author - "Good Enough for the Climate"
This is really important. We accept these types of grid failures, like they are inevitable, but they aren't. Resiliency and quality can be built into the system and how it is operated. it's a public safety, public health and environmental catastrophe when the grid fails like this and does so repeatedly.
Check out this shocking but real video that documents the collapse of the Houston Area Electric Grid during Hurricane Beryl. Each dot is a Ting sensor in a Houston neighborhood and the Ting network covers every neighborhood in Houston. The “exploding white dots” represent Ting network detected grid faults caused by trees touching wires, wires touching wires, wires and poles falling and grid equipment failing. As homes lose power they turn from white to red. This is very sad to see. It is clear that this grid was not ready for Beryl. The people of Houston are suffering as a result. At the peak more than 80% of homes in the Houston area lost power. Even now, 40% of homes in Harris County remain without power. The Whisker team is posting regular updates to help the people of Houston stay informed as this is the only source of real-time, neighborhood level information. This is a humanitarian crisis at this point and we sincerely hope that that power and lives can be restored to normal soon. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the catastrophic consequences of poor grid resilience. Ting data over the past 3 years indicates that homes in Houston are 2.5X more likely to experience a power outage compared to the average U.S. home. So the Houston area grid challenges are not new or unique to Beryl. We hope to leverage the power of Ting data to help utilities understand where grids are weak and stressed, and allow for smart and targeted investments to improve grid resilience. Society needs a resilient and reliable grid. Please keep the people of Houston in your thoughts and prayers. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong #gridresilience
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We need to make wildfires like Smokehouse Creek a thing of the past. Our mission is to empower utility providers and local fire departments with our data solutions, so we can together have a safer and better energy grid. According to investigators, a downed powerline in Hutchinson County likely ignited the Smokehouse Creek wildfire, the largest in Texas history. This first spark produced over 1.2 million acres (over 486,000 hectares) of destruction, burning a large area of land from Stinnett, Texas to Arnett, Oklahoma. This wildfire was a lamentable tragedy, but considering the scale of the American power grid, fire almost seems inevitable. A study by Scientific American found that the US coast-to-coast electricity interconnection network boasts over 200,000 miles (321,868 kilometers) of high-voltage transmission lines and over 5.5 million miles (8.8 million kilometers) of local distribution lines, making it the largest in the world. It seamlessly connects over 2,000 utility providers for a truly continental power system. From the smallest rural towns to the largest urban cities, power can easily flow between them all. Utilities spend billions to maintain their networks. But fires are still happening. Our ability to monitor large swaths of the Earth all at once means we can help safeguard against these fires, as we can easily overwatch transmission lines and generation sites. With our complete product offering along the timeline of potential wildfires, we can empower utilities to keep their local communities and infrastructure safe. Once a fire breaks out, every minute matters, making quick decisions crucial. Our thermal sensor network can enable this, by observing the individual paths of each of their power lines and monitoring them constantly. This ensures that, in the event of a fire emergency, we can alert command teams and get firefighters on the ground before it becomes an unmanageable inferno. #SmokehouseCreekFire #WildfirePrevention #UtilityProviders #UtilityServices
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Lecturer @ Technische Universität Berlin | PhD researcher in Urban Infrastructure Resilience & Deep Learning | MPhil. Engineering, University of Cambridge
Studying the resilience of infrastructure with interdependencies to power outages is intrinsic!
Check out this shocking but real video that documents the collapse of the Houston Area Electric Grid during Hurricane Beryl. Each dot is a Ting sensor in a Houston neighborhood and the Ting network covers every neighborhood in Houston. The “exploding white dots” represent Ting network detected grid faults caused by trees touching wires, wires touching wires, wires and poles falling and grid equipment failing. As homes lose power they turn from white to red. This is very sad to see. It is clear that this grid was not ready for Beryl. The people of Houston are suffering as a result. At the peak more than 80% of homes in the Houston area lost power. Even now, 40% of homes in Harris County remain without power. The Whisker team is posting regular updates to help the people of Houston stay informed as this is the only source of real-time, neighborhood level information. This is a humanitarian crisis at this point and we sincerely hope that that power and lives can be restored to normal soon. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the catastrophic consequences of poor grid resilience. Ting data over the past 3 years indicates that homes in Houston are 2.5X more likely to experience a power outage compared to the average U.S. home. So the Houston area grid challenges are not new or unique to Beryl. We hope to leverage the power of Ting data to help utilities understand where grids are weak and stressed, and allow for smart and targeted investments to improve grid resilience. Society needs a resilient and reliable grid. Please keep the people of Houston in your thoughts and prayers. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong #gridresilience
