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Northwest Newsradio
"austin energy" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"I was feeling a little down on my birthday, so I decided to treat myself to a birthday drink, and the barista, she was so nice, she helped me pick out my drink. And then when I rolled up to the drive-through window, she had called over a few other baristas to sing happy birthday to me. It was such a surprise. And a sweet little moment of kindness, right when I needed it the most. My great reminder that a little kindness is never really little. This is America in the morning. It's 26 after. A 6th Memphis officer was fired after an internal police investigation showed he violated multiple department policies in the violent arrest of Tyree Nichols. Correspondent Norman hall reports one of those policies violated includes rules surrounding the deployment of a stun gun. A 6th Memphis officer has been fired after an internal police investigation showed he violated multiple department policies, the violent arrest of Tyree Nichols, breast and hemphill had been suspended as he was investigated for his role in the January 7th the rest of Nichols died in a hospital three days later. 5 Memphis officers have already been fired and charged with second degree murder on body camera video from the initial stop, hemphill is heard saying that he used a stun gun against Nichols and that he hoped other officers would stop Nichols. I Norman hall. Two Indiana law enforcement officers are lucky to be alive after they were shot and wounded during a traffic stop. Correspondent Julie Walker reports. Indiana state police say both officers injuries are not life threatening the shooting happened around three 15 in the morning in Mitchell about 75 miles from Indianapolis, officials say the suspect's vehicle was pulled over for a traffic violation. A police dog sniffed out drugs and officers found narcotics when they tried to handcuff the man. He ran, officers caught him. That's when officials say the suspect pulled a gun and fired at the officers who shot and killed him. The shooting is being investigated and body and dash cam video reviewed. I'm Julie Walker. More than 30,000 power customers in Austin, Texas are still in the dark after an ice storm on Wednesday tour through parts of the lone star state. Austin energy announced yesterday they have restored power to over 100,000 customers after the storm caused what they described as a hurricane like devastation, but have no timetable as to when the last 30,000 will see their lights back on. The ice event brought down a number of utility poles, wires, and also caused trees to topple. For those without power, the storm reminds many of the mass Texas grid failure in 2021, which left 4 million power customers without electricity and water and an estimated 200 people died
KTRH
"austin energy" Discussed on KTRH
"News time 403 That was Channel two's Brittany Jeffers reporting by the way to energy companies being taken to court over the deadly winter weather that hit Texas earlier this year. ERCOT and Austin energy being sued over the February Winter storm, the daughter of Connie May. Ritchie says the woman died during the four day power outage, and the suit blames Austin Energy for failing to rotate outages. They're asking for a million dollars in damages. Robert E. Lee statue removed in Virginia After much resistance, long legal battles and standing for over 100 years, Cruz hoisted the Statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee off its pedestal Today in Richmond. People gathered at the foot of the monument and cheered as one of the nation's largest Confederate monument was removed. The statue will be cut into and sent to storage. I'm Kathy White News on demand at ktrh dot com. Our next update is going to be at 4 30 breaking information as it happens. I'm John Wesley Danny on Houston's news, weather and traffic station. NewsRadio 7 40 ktrh. Look above the business at 71 06. Maybe what's up? Y'all Jimmy Allen here and I can't wait to see you live. But I love you multi platinum selling country artist. Jimmy Allen could give you my best shot Saturday, November six might feel more silver Spring. I love you, but you're gonna make me more on tour in support of his latest album, Betty James Gold Edition Tickets available now at live nation dot com. Jimmy Allen live..
KTRH
"austin energy" Discussed on KTRH
"It was taking part in the study had to meet one of two qualifications. They had to have either been fully vaccinated for at least eight weeks or had a previous positive test. I'm Lisa Taylor, the cost of repairing storm damage from Hurricane Ida could hit $95 billion That's the word from AccuWeather, which raised its original forecast on the deadly storm that hit multiple states, including Louisiana, New York and New Jersey. To energy companies are being taken to court over the deadly winter weather that hit Texas earlier this year. ERCOT as well as Austin Energy are being sued over the February Winter storm. The daughter of Connie May rich, he says her mother died during the four day power outage. The lawsuit blames Austin Energy for failing to rotate outages and ask for a million dollars in damages. Ktrh news time 903 this Saturday marks 20 years since the 9 11 terrorist attacks, the president and first lady will visit all three sites were hijacked airliners crashed at the Pentagon in New York City and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Former President George W. Bush will take part in the ceremony in Pennsylvania. The Labor Department says job openings across the US are way above expectations nearly 11 million openings nationwide. The U. S only added 235,000 jobs last week. In sports. The International Olympic Committee is formally suspending North Korea from the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. The reason is for North Korea North Korea's failure to attend the Tokyo Games due to Covid 19. But the committee didn't rule out it would consider any North Korean athletes who qualify for the Winter Olympics by name on a case by case basis. More news on demand to ktrh dot com. Our next update at 9 30 breaking information as it happens, I'm Wyatt Goolsbee For NewsRadio, 7 40 T T. R H.
Talk 1260 KTRC
"austin energy" Discussed on Talk 1260 KTRC
"And there's an urgency to, uh, looking for and announcing actions to help women now. Press Secretary Jen Psaki called it clearly unconstitutional, she noted. The Justice Department and HHS are exploring all legal options. The U. S Supreme Court recently declined to block implementation of the Texas law, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy says he's pressing the federal government to include more counties in their disaster declarations Following ideas floods James Flippen has more governor Murphy says its signature To get that six counties have received major disaster declarations. Federal money can immediately go towards effective homeowners. But he says more needs to be done. If you're not in those six counties, we're continuing to work with FEMA and county leaders across the state to expedite damage assessments. And have those counties added murky. Having just met with President Biden the day before explaining this was truly a statewide event. It demands a statewide response. We made this case directly to the president James Forman, New Jersey Louisiana is rescheduling its fall elections, Secretary of State Kyle Arduin announced today. The October 19th election will now happen November 13th while the November 13th election will happen December 11th Erdogan says the delays will help staff and local partners better prepare for a statewide election following Hurricane Ida. He also believes the postponements will keep traditional voting habits from being disturbed. You're listening to the latest on NBC news radio. To energy companies are being taken to court over the deadly winter weather that hit Texas earlier this year or cot in Austin energy are being sued over the February Winter Storm. The daughter of Connie May. Ritchie says the woman died during the four day power outage. The suit blames Austin Energy for failing.
Off The Hook
"austin energy" Discussed on Off The Hook
"At the tone twenty three hours forty four minutes coordinated universal time. Yeah and that's that's a bit of fun you can have by calling. Wwe he also gives us a couple of other numbers here. We can try the naval observatory master clock in washington dc. We're not going to do that because we can't call these clocks now. Two zero two seven six two one four zero one as far as local time announce since back in the phone company days grand rapids michigan had six one six four five nine one two one two With the format of a female voice at the tone the time will be ten fifteen and twenty seconds beep. A few years ago. I tried it. The number is no longer in service. Well guess what numbers back in service. We're not going to call it but And it's annoying too if you do call it because you get as big fat advertisement along with a press one if you want more information about the advertisement after about thirty seconds you finally get around to the time so it's not like it was in the old days. Thanks jack from michigan for writing with that. Yes rob you have something. Yeah i just wanna plug. There's a great website out there. Full of Old telephone company recordings. But there's also a whole section for recordings like this time and temperature announcement There there is a great amount of stuff Wonderful rabbit holes to go down and obviously if you listened to a recording. It won't be the correct time and temperature no but But it's a nice little. Listen to voices from long ago. I'm just remembering because i'm seeing a recording on the screen in front of me and it looks like something We're visiting my grandmother and we were little kids. We found out about the time and temperature phone number and called it repeatedly for the better part of an hour just to see if it would actually advance as the clock in the room where we were and then my grandmother found us and said she had to pay for local phone calls and we needed to stop calling immediately and we got a lot of not only that keeler just so you know not only as a local call for premium service so she had to pay extra in addition to the local charge. I think about what you did But i did look it up and apparently that number also still in service. I'm not going to suggest we call it right now. Knows a cash cow for the phone company. They love when people find these things. I used to call santa claus. And i was a kid and all these dilute service numbers that i didn't know they cost more. So yeah i. I don't know if they still around. I'm not gonna call them now but they they might still be there if you have an interesting phone number Share with us. Yes right to us. O t h at twenty six hundred dot com. And if if you stick around later you can call us and we'll take your phone call. Go ahead alex. I entirely agree with with kyle and i. I missed people sharing interesting phone. Numbers this hearkens back to what we would often talk about on the air with jason. Scott which are the days of voice mailbox hacking when phone freaks would take over a voicemail box and they would share on the outgoing message interesting. Telephone numbers numbers to the white house. Numbers to the kremlin interesting carrier towns. All of that fun stuff. I really really miss. I mean it's been a good twenty five twenty seven years now. I guess since since voicemail box hacking and phone number trading was really popular. So i entirely would hope that people call in and share some of these more interesting numbers that we can explore on the air. You call that hacking voicemail hacking really know how about answering machine hacking okay. Let's go back before. Then there before voicemail and you would just basically finance machines and you hit the star and wait for a beep and then you had like a to digital maybe three digit password. And then you listen to messages or change. Somebody's outgoing recording. And that was always a lot of fun. Oh i've got some great stories about hacking answering machines from way back in the day. I don't know if you recall specifically yourself manual remember. At and t. Entering machines do you remember. What their default codeless. It was probably something like one two three. No probably wasn't that complicated is probably something like unto one zero. Okay see. i wasn't that far off all this time without even knowing the machine. I almost got it but panasonic panasonic was. The one that i was was because i had panasonic answering machines in fact twenty six hundred half and we've got hacked ones because we couldn't change our password because that was the extent of the technology then but what we did was we hacked back. We found out who would who had hacked our machine because they had left the clue we ever get to them. They had a similar machine so we were able to do something similar and they stopped. They understood that sparring with entering could've called the fbi. You know other people were doing that but now i feel like this. This network is both larger and heavily used but also neglected and underexplored. I don't know if that paradox is real or not. But i'm getting the sense that just in this conversation and there's just so much out there with calls being so cheap Make a few see what happens and explore. it's it's uncharted and in so so many ways and yet right under our noses or or at our fingertips. I wanna close with a story about a hacker in texas You might recall. Power companies across texas have refused to disclose which areas of the state were exempt from control blackouts after a devastating snowstorm crippled the power grid in february but one hacker has found that smart meters electrical devices on the size of houses and businesses. That monitor energy consumption quietly broadcasting data. That could be used to determine what infrastructure may have been protected in the days following the historic freeze companies tied to the states privately. Run grid were met with pressing questions citizens and lawmakers like over how was decided who would who would not be plunged into darkness. A dallas based hardware hacker and security researcher known as hash. I notice one such refusal in early march from austin energy which is a publicly owned utility provider in the texas capital. Austin energy has continually argued that disclosing what infrastructure allowed to remain operational such as hospitals and nine one one call centers could make the city and by extension. It's more than one million residents vulnerable to cyber attacks. Yeah good excuse. We are not able to provide that information since it's protected. Critical infrastructure information said a spokesperson. Well hash who has been reverse engineering. The inner workings of smart meters since two thousand sixteen says the argument contains one major flaw smart meters used by austin energy and other power companies throughout texas quietly amid data that shows how long businesses and residences have gone since their last power outage. Such information could potentially reveal whose power was shut off and who's wasn't so from his home workshop complete with an array of smart meter components purchased from ebay hash spent weeks in the wake of the snowstorm collecting analyzing and deciphering the data streams at travel across the massive smart meter network that Blankets dallas and hash noticed a sudden change in the data values given off by the smart meters in his neighborhood.
The Internet of Things Podcast - Stacey On IoT
"austin energy" Discussed on The Internet of Things Podcast - Stacey On IoT
"Okay kevin. Let's talk about your recent purchases. Yes prime day came and went and we survived You said you did not buy anything. And i did not plan to buy anything but my wife. Who isn't i don't wanna say she's anti smart home but she's not a. She doesn't embrace this model. Which makes life a little challenging for us sometimes. She has been complaining about allergies that she wanted an air purifier and she showed me one and she said. Hey it's on sale. But it only works with madame a and we have we do have an echo dot in the house. But it's not where she works in the home office so she's like yes that's a shame will a scroll down further on this device. It is made by la- voight. It is a smart wifi air purifier. And interestingly it says the very bottom of the proscription it also works with the google assistant. Do we bought two of them there. Little i'd say in room air purifiers really you know. All the specs are good but this is not going to do a whole house. Obviously it's ninety bucks on sale but it does have an app and does work with google as well as madame as so. We grabbed those. Interestingly at in fact just before the show. I'm supposed to get them later this week. Like friday it there on the way now getting them early. So that's really weird that it just popped up my coming but interestingly the it's funny how this ties into some of the stuff we're and talk about later show and some things we've spoken about on the last show when you look at the product description on amazon front and center. It works with madame. It wasn't until high school all the way down. I don't like that. They highlight that in a sense. Because my wife didn't scroll down and dig into the details to see it. It works google as well. But whatever. Well i mean like yeah sure i it. It's that whole the big tech. Ecosystems and the advantages that they have over non ecosystem devices and partners in a sense true. Okay that's okay. Yeah amazon highlighting but i would say amazon highlighting its advantage on its own platform does kind of make sense but the fact that its platform is also the way you by just about. Everything is a legitimate question. That's fair that's fair. And i know some folks are going gonna say why didn't you just get a smart plug and use a different air purifiers. We did buy one six months ago. Unfortunately there purifiers. I bought two ill now and fans. They don't work with smart plugs when they when they get shut off and lose power of logging back on but the fan or purifier does not okay would have been a cheaper way to go up. Asli yeah yeah in. There's there's devices like the air. Glow i think is what i've used. That is be sensor for the home. And then it controls a smart plug that turns on a variety of things like we have ours. Plugged into a dehumidifier. Actually i may have to go back and look at the aware and see if it works with this purifier. because i'd love to see it go on automatically when it's more particularly its pollen in the air that it recognizes pretty nice feature all right. Well we'll good yes. I think everybody out there. Wildfire season appear in the west coast is going to be pretty extreme so we did buy a. We brought a smart kobe. air purifier. but there's a bunch out there. I know three m's got a new one. I'm hoping to test that at some point in time. So we'll see okay. let's see. What should we talk about texas. So this week. I was actually this last week. I was in texas for an unprecedented unprecedented and he waves. It gets hot in texas. We all know that but it was early in everybody in texas was sweating sweating a lot including me. Who was after a year and a half away. I was like oh my goodness. I can't believe i lived here. Your body has adjusted to seattle. Whether i was miserable but looks like i was not alone because all texans were miserable in many were surprised to find out that they're they're smart. Thermostats were being controlled by their energy company as part of a demand response program. So let's break down this story. Because i feel like a lot of people were shocked and upset in angry at smart thermostat beakers and they also misunderstand the actual details of what's going on here. Yes in some of. That's their fault in some of it's not their fault so again let's talk about it. Here's the deal when you buy a smart thermostat. Many utilities will give you the option to sign up for demand response. When i lived in austin i had my utility was austin energy. It was city owned municipal utility and they gave me eighty dollars for every smart thermostat. I installed they gave me a rebate of eighty dollars. As long as i signed up for demand response. When i signed up for that the way the program worked was when the grid was going to be overloaded and they needed to shed some load they would send me an email and put a notice on my physical nest thermostat. That said that a demand response happened was going to happen. I then had maybe it was an hour. Maybe it was two hours to say. I don't wanna do this. If i missed that window. i could not change it. So that's important to note so you you've got a tiny winter. I had with austin energy. Tiny window this will very probably by the utility it does. Yes and that's what we're going to get to it a second. So if i had a party that night or i was just like or in some cases and this is cheating i would lower my thermostat by like two degrees so then because it would never raise it by more than four degrees. So if i had my thermostat set seventy-seven my thermostat would go all the way up to eighty one. But if i had seventy five go all the way up to seventy nine. So those are some cheats that i sometimes would employ. Sometimes i was like what is going to be hot but we got. We got to reduce the load. So that's how austin energy works but texas is deregulated. The energy industries deregulated. So you might buy your power from different power company but you might also use a third party player for demand response it. Here's where it gets interesting. Your power company determines your demand response participation and depending on how they notify you in the program they implement. You may be more or less aware of what's happening and what seems to have happened is there is a third party player called energy hub that does demand response for companies. You when you have a thermostat will sign up with them. Except unlike with austin energy they are not obvious about what they're signing up for with them. You sign up for a chance to win five thousand dollars by participating in what they call it. Demand response sweepstakes in that case. It's not clear how they handle it in. I have to say if. I were a customer. If you don't read the terms and conditions you might not be aware that you're signing up to have your electricity go up by four degrees. During the hottest point of the day to help shed load to. You may not have the option to opt out. Like austin energy gave people and i think this is a this is an area where people are getting upset with the smart thermostats and there. I will never put this in my house. The key is not say. I will never put this in the house. The key is saying. I will put this in my house at only work with a trusted supplier because the overall benefit of shedding load is important in texas. Should know how important that is. Because they didn't shed enough in february in everybody was without power not everybody many people without power for up to a week during these winter storms. The idea here is a good one. Which is what you're alluding to there. If you are all sharing the grid in a state cetera. You have to work together. You must they issue As you also. It's not the device. There's nothing wrong with having a smart thermostat. It's transparency and awareness and communication of this these types of systems. And i mean i'll be honest. I don't read the terms of service on every device. I use every service because who has time for that really so they're just has to be better way but to blame. Smart thermostat is absolutely wrong. I would agree with you there to be fair. I had an incentive to like i got an eighty dollar discount on my smart thermostat. So for me the incentive was. Hey i know that. I am participating in this program. Other utilities also offered fifty or even one hundred dollar rebates so in effect. You know you're getting an advantage for participating. This there is an incentive. The problem is the incentive is not directly aligned with the event which i think is hard for consumers like so people are like. Oh my gosh. My house is so hot. why and then. They're like panic and unin role. They're not seeing the quote unquote cost of participation..
KLBJ 590AM
"austin energy" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"You have found the tide of Don show and Bill is checking in from South Austin this morning, Bill. What's on your mind Bill? Well, if Don is concerned about the reliability of electric service in Austin, he needs to call Greg Gasol and Steve Adler. Uh, you know, we own our own. We own. Our own electric utility has called the municipally owned electric utility and they're the ones that make the decisions on. How much generation to build and how it's operated. And in years past, we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars on wind farms to help Boston energy. You got that bio chip diesel burning facility in East Texas that that you actually bought that never produced electricity at all. We could go on and on about the mismanagement in Austin energy rate. Yeah, well, and the inability to for them to even keep the power on to the most important water treatment plant in the city. Yeah. No, You're absolutely right. That incompetence. Yeah, And you know what, more in confidence locally, no doubt and there are than there is with regard to how the transmission grid Is operated. And you know what's interesting Bill? Let him off the hook. And you know what's interesting Bill? Nobody in Austin City Hall in the City Council wants any kind of audit of Austin energy at all. Nobody is talking about that. Typically, you would get that kind of call to action after that kind of power outages back in February, but no, they don't want to look at the books. They don't want to look at the operations of Austin Energy, because it's kind of been their cash cow as a way to raise your taxes over the years. Yeah, it's It's been that way for decades since I worked there and and yes, there's lots to be looked at their. What'd you do? Bill at Boston Energy? Uh, alignment for the county. What do you do? No, no, no. I was in the administrative. Uh, Area, Okay, and very familiar with the people at the at the upper end of the organization that made the made those kinds of decision. Bill, would we know your name? No, you wouldn't know my okay. Just check and just check it. I know him as Bill. Just seeing how high up the chain you might have been at the time, but China High in acid. I would confirm what your what your suspicions are and just the fact that they won't. Uh Submit themselves to some reasonable scrutiny is an accurate uh um, assessment because we may find out what how it's really operated right? We may find out the true details behind the finances. Well, I don't. I don't know that I'm not. I'm certainly not suggesting there's anything illegal going on. But just the fact that there are there's tens of millions, certainly hundreds of millions of dollars over decades that are transferred out of the electric utility. Into the General fund and then used for all kinds of goofy things that don't have anything to do with delivering safe, reliable electric power to the community. I mean, your your eyes would roll back and listen, Bill. It's the way the Mafia works. You take over a nightclub. You order the booze through the front door, pay with the owners credit card and you sell it cheaper out the back door in the back quarter spaghetti. It's very nefarious, basically amounts to trickery in a way to raise your taxes, raising your electric rates, raising this and then using that money for other things that they knew you would vote against. If you said if they threw it at you, you know, in a legitimate, honest way I'm telling you, you know, I got my petition in the mail yesterday. Take, uh, say Boston now, this time to refund police, uh, again to sign the heck out of that. I wish there would be a petition also demanding an audit An audit. Uh, city on it, which we voted. No. Four. Strangely enough, I don't think we knew what we were doing on that deal. Listen in the world of business. Joe Biden continues his first overseas trip in Europe. With several meetings in Brussels and beginning with the European Council. We have this opportunity..
KLBJ 590AM
"austin energy" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Bring you the news You need 24 7. We don't need a slew of executive orders to keep our commitment to you. The news at the top and 30 minutes past beetle breaking news. As it happens, they know how to sniff out the big news. Made a different joke on use radio getting all the facts. It spells our Gail BJ. We're listening to news radio K O B, J A. M. Austin 5 90 A, M and K. 259 A. J. Austen 99.7 F m. For a jury trial and claims the defendant's violated the reconstruction era. Ku Klux Klan at Fox is Rachel Sutherland, the far right groups, The proud boys and the Oath. Keepers are also named in the suit, and the former president has launched a blistering attack on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who voted to acquit him in his impeachment trial. Those said later on the Senate floor that Trump was practically and morally responsible for the capital riot in a statement, Trump calls McConnell a dour, sullen and unsmiling political hack. And, he writes if Republicans say Anders air going to stay with him. They will not win again. Wall Street of the clothes stocks ended the day with mixed results. The Dow gained 64 points and NASDAQ lost 47 Yes, and Pee off two points. America is listening to Fox News. News, Radio K O B. J on John Cooley and Topping Austin's news. You need to be prepared for another night with no power. That's the latest from Austin. Energy officials say the outages may extend beyond the night as well. Austin Energy is also catching flak over the lights still being on through downtown despite hundreds of thousands of customs elsewhere in the Austin without power Jackie Sergeant with Austin and he says downtown is exempt because of some critical infrastructure that needs to be protected. Critical load. Consists of things like hospital control centers, spire stations, water treatment facilities, and in addition to the city of Boston, using the Parmer Event Center is a warming shelter. Austin Eyes D is also opening up a pair of campuses to help take in the cold weary city Officials report. Both Mendez Middle School in Northeast Early College High School are available to residents. You need power for medical devices and the most vulnerable. Your kale. BJ Radar. Weather Watch low.
KLBJ 590AM
"austin energy" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Has been catching some flak over the light still being on throughout downtown despite hundreds of thousands of customers being without Jackie sergeant with Austin Energy says downtown is exempt because of some critical infrastructure that has to be protected. Cologne consists of things like hospitals. Control centers. Fire stations Water treatment facility across Texas. More than four million people are without power Capital Metro is again canceled All service for the day. The initial plan had been to resume bus service today, but the agency now says it will shift its operations to once again assisting emergency services. And the roadways are no better today than they were yesterday. And in fact Tex. Dot says an expected winter storm tonight could prolong the dangers that have existed out there on the roads. Now for days. I have about 27 degrees today with another chance for snow overnight. I'm Patrick Osborne, and you can get Austin News on demand. At news radio, K o b j dot com This is Don sitting here with Isabel Van Rawson of Band Ross and contracting Isabella. No advance Ross and you're able to handle just about any aspect of the job in house. This has got to give you a lot of control over the quality with most contractors your general contractor when he comes in, and he gives you a bid on the whole homer model. He will then go ahead and give you your price for the remodel. And then he has subcontractors. That air gonna bid on pieces of that job tile setters, Florence, dollars cabinetmakers brew furs. The benefit with us is that we have all this under one roof that way. We already know what the cost will be. There's no surprises, so the price that you were given at contract signing is the price you're going to pay and folks trust me. Their work is amazing whether it's an ad on or remodeled the kitchen or bathroom or a whole home, remodel Van Ross and can handle it all. Check him out online band Ross and contracting.
KLBJ 590AM
"austin energy" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Of the conditions with the weather. And it's the biggest thing is still the lack of electricity for some 390,000 people across the Austin area, and the city really does not have an explanation as to when that might be corrected. And that's bad mark because you look at the forecast. It's not gonna get better. The high tomorrow is 36 Wednesday, 39, But we're not gonna We're not gonna get out of the thirties until Saturday and with overnight lows in the twenties. Until Saturday. Thistles the dire situation and I don't know how how you get out of it. If you're the city of Austin. I don't know, but it's not going to get warmer tomorrow. It's not gonna get warmer for several days. So it's something gotta be done, Mark. I don't know what it is, but something's gotta be done on this electricity. Austin Energy put out a tweet, indicating that they had intended to rotate the outages. But once they started doing that, they say that they have not been able to successfully move those outages around the city so that no one is left without power for more than 40 minutes. And that's just totally unacceptable to be in that situation. Now, this is a core. Function of the city government right on and you know full well that they really don't pay much attention to a lot of the core functions of police fire. And now today, the electric grid. This is that you're right. It's fundamental it is. This is this is something that's got to be up there. And priority 12 or three and sadly now when it's not, I was just in contact with my nephew who lives out Barton Hills. He's got no power since 2 30. He's got small boys. So it's affecting people all over this city. So they gotta get their act together quickly, And I know that we've got Get get your thermostat to 65 or 64. If you do have electricity turn off all the, uh, unplug stuff to save electricity. But man, something's something's gotta give and the next in the next 24 hour mark, it could be very, very dire situation. Some people. What about nursing homes? What about hospitals? I know hospitals have generators and enough nursing homes have generators, but my gosh Uh, well, yeah, you're right here. That's that's ah, really Key point and Austin Energy says that When it was deciding which areas would lose electricity. It wanted Tol look first at hospitals and keep them on. So the areas around hospitals Are gonna have electricity. That's that's their intention. And what they are saying is is in the other areas where they turned it off. They thought they would be able to rotate those around and now they're finding that they can't do the rotation Lee and you're right that that's that's terrible by them. T put us in this situation. It is And as I look outside in my house, the wind is blowing and it's going to be blowing snow around. So you gotta be mindful of that. And unless you have a vehicle that can handle.
KLBJ 590AM
"austin energy" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Austin Energy tweeting a thread early this morning, explaining how the company says it is selecting areas for rotating power blackouts to help ease the strain on the state's power grid among this, you know, in the midst of this icy storm The power company said it regularly updates a list of critical loads like hospitals that our exit from the blackouts, while a rotating blackout is intended only last about 40 minutes, many in the Austin area reporting hours long power outages this morning 6789 hours in some cases. And according to Austin Energy because the company had cut power from all areas, not containing a critical load, the ability to rotate the outages has been impacted, so that's the explanation that they're giving us this morning. That haircut and Austin energy now during a typical rotating blackout event locations are determined by Austin Energy system at random, the company said, rotating out just can last longer. Depending on the demand coming from ear cut. And according to which website Austin Energy is requiring by required by ear cut to respond to these emergency events here, Kat reported, and on what they reported in all time record high demand for power at almost 70,000 megawatts last night. And s. Oh, there you go. That's about 4000 about 3200 megawatts higher than the previous record of 2018. Well, I'd like to have an idea how long they think this is gonna last, and I'm really concerned about. You know the elderly. That might be, uh, won't and you know, Kim and I will be fine. We've got warm clothes and we got a fire going and you know, we'll be okay. But there's there's others that I'm sure need to be checked on. Chad is in North Austin on the tide of Don show this morning. Hey, Chad. Hey, What's a, um, You know, it's irritating to me is I went on the website last night PC, and they said that these rolling blackouts would last about 10 minutes to 45 minutes. And then you would have power and then it might go off later. You know, nobody said ours. And ours was kind of frustrating. I would have a few days ago. I would have probably went out bought a generator or something. If I would have known it was gonna be this bad. And you know, these guys have been doing this a long time. They should have known what was gonna happen. So I feel like Just not. No information got to the public and I don't know who's to blame. But somebody is Well, we've been robbed, reporting the fact that the weather is going to turn bitter cold. I I see the meteorologist at the National Weather Service were originally I guess last Monday. We're talking about how.
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"2 A.m. with no electricity. That's nine hours. Austin Energy. Here's another one houses outage rolling when it's been going on for eight hours. Michelle says, dealing with an outage in a house with a newborn for eight hours. Please help. Here's another one for Marla. Northwest. Austin has been without electricity since 2 A.m.. I can see my breath in my own home, Nathan says. Well, his tweet was a little profane, so I'm not gonna be able to read it, but it was directed at Mayor Adler. It's tea and in Austin energy. What are you gonna say? Yeah, I said we'll see tacky with his language. I don't blame him. But for someone to be able to literally see their breath in the road home, man, pour Le Here's another one. No, no power in Clarksville. No power along stuff. Stone Lake. No power in the dripping springs area as well. These these folks are starting to really feel it and they're getting very angry on Angela. Here's what she tweets. This is criminal. Austin Energy pulls in massive amounts of cash and tax credits for being a utility provider, and they can't even do this right. Y'all shouldn't have your own monopoly here. I'm making this my political goal. Yeah, That's pretty interesting. She's she's upset. Yeah, folks Away, remembers back in 1989, which which is probably about the last time that we Had this kind of cold. Uh, we didn't have blackouts. We didn't have rolling blackouts at all. Well, we also We also didn't depend so much on wind energy as well back then. Well, there you go. Whenever you get about 30% of your power Through windmills and they freeze for 567 days. You're gonna go without electricity. That's that's the that is the eggs. That is the problem that we're dealing with at this very moment is the frozen windmills putting strain on the grid and then yeah, they're just not able to produce. When windmills here the satellite TV of energy, I guess so. Let's we quote me on that. Let's squeeze in John checking in from Round rock this morning. Hey, John. Good. You're good Morning Act. I've been trying to build a 220 megawatt power plant halfway between Hutto and Taylor. We've got the land. We've got the air permits. Haircuts been screwing around. Um, By the way, you probably want to put praise my name. I was the chief debater for the South Texas nuclear project in the 1976. 1976 election that kept Austin in the South Texas nuclear program. Back up a second. Hang on a second. Hang on a second. Who are you? Who are you with? And what do you talking about? My name is John Gordon. There's a group of 17 of us that invested in land between halfway between huddle and Taylor next to an electric substation to build a 220 megawatts. Um, uh, reciprocating engine diesel type, uh, power plant because we know her cot is 5000 megawatts short of their capacity. That's why you've got everybody's is out of power. Uh, they're turned off because ERCOT doesn't have the reserves and they've been lying to the public. I've been telling everybody this. I even told it to the ERCOT leaderships face down in a South Texas conference. You 5000 megawatts. We wouldn't be having people out if they'd be building the reserve capacity. Yeah, I've got an air permit to build the plan. What's the name of the group? Give us. I mean, what's the name of the organization s so I could find more Which energy saying again ranks which energy? Brain switch energy. Okay, I went in, and 19 went in in 2000 and 15 and sat down with the guy that was ahead of Georgetown's utility and said, We'll sell you 108 megawatts of power or we'll sell you. The power plan are you talking about? We're gonna build natural gas. Natural gas. Is that what you're using? Yeah, it would be natural gas fired, but it doesn't use water. It's it's It's like a truck engine, but it's fired by natural gas. Yeah. Somewhere. Where you in this project where? Give me an idea. Where you in this project? I'm looking at your website. This is the real deal. What do you give us? An update. We got the air permit. We have the land. I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means. You got the air permit. That means that Texas environment T c E kids, The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has given us a clear permit to build the plant and run it. So what's the holdup? ERCOT has been pricing their electricity so cheap and telling everybody that we got plenty of capacity. It's a line clearly, we don't We don't have a good and I've been Go ahead. What? We almost had the same blackouts in in, um, in, uh, a year and a half ago in August we were that close to having blackouts, then. The cove. It reduced the demand this past summer, but you get a good cold spell like we get, and by the way, I was a two public utility commission in 1989. When we were about do rolling blackouts, which did happen not in Austin, but in the round rock area, and we I was discussing Getting the South Texas plan to come back online. It was in an adage within our seed for an emergency permit to bring in about half of their power capacity s O. I've been complaining that ERCOT Has been lying to the public. They don't have the reserve to meet these special conditions. Johnny John result, Johnny V. Had a chance to talk with Williamson County commissioners or anything like that. Judge Gravel. Yeah, they If you know who I am, Everyone knows who I am. I've been telling him this now they're seeing it. I've been warning about this year after year. Yeah, well, I'm looking at your website, and it's well it's wanted, so it's it's great website, and it outlines everything you're talking about here. So what's you think Haircut is in your way, producing a new power plants and Williamson County. That's right. And, uh Schwartz ner. I mean, Fortner are Senator He better call me in at the at the Legislature. I mean, Was a chief chief debater in 1976 for keeping Austin in the South Texas nuclear project. Yeah, you should. Everybody should be praising the heck out of me right now. I got you, man. I'll read a little bit more. And I appreciate you calling man. It seems like there's a lot on your plate here. And you got the land acquisition over there in West Taylor. And it's one of the property. It was a substation wouldn't be owned by encore. Is that how it work? He's gone, All right. I wish you'd call back. Yeah, that's that's pretty interesting. He's a registered professional engineer named John Gordon. And he's been tracking all of this stuff and his website frames. Switch energy dot net S. Oh, there you go. We have to go to their main communications of the 911 system early this morning..
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"Managers have eight hours to present arguments today upto eight more tomorrow. Lawyers representing former President Trump begin their case later this week. Lisa Thanks Jared the meantime, the former president could face legal trouble in Georgia, where a D A has launched a criminal probe into attempts to influence the election outcome, which is thought You included infamous phone call about finding fraudulent votes boxes. Evan Brown has this live at least of the prosecutor in Atlanta is now officially investigating whether then President Donald Trump violated state law in early January when, during a phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rapids Burger, he asked the secretary about finding enough votes needed to win in the state. In a recount. She was alleged. The former president was pressuring Rapids burger into manipulating results. Something Mr Trump vehemently denies charges, however, have yet to be filed. Lisa thank seven and a letter from the D A. To the Georgia secretary of State does not mention Trump specifically. As a target of that investigation at the White House spokeswoman just confirming that President Biden will make remarks next hour about the recent military coup in Burma. This amid reports the U. S. Is set to announce sanctions on Burma. America is listening to Fox News. News Radio K O B. J on Patrick Osborne. This news is brought you by Northwest fence and iron voters will decide on Proposition Ancient Mai, which changes Austin's campaign finance system for local elections, Ashley Gloucester with the city of Austin says Under this change, the city clerk would send $25 vouchers to every qualified voter who then donate that to a candidate of their choice elements of the 300,000 for mayoral race or run off. 75,000 for council race to run off. This proposal does have a lot of critics, many of whom say they don't want their tax money to be given to others who would then donate it to a candidate that they don't support. Beginning February, 16th qualified businesses can begin applying for relief grants of up to $20,000 and in some cases up to $140,000. This is part of Austin's legacy. Business relief grant, meaning some of the criteria does include being an operation for the last 20 years, at least and actually meeting the city's definition of legacy business. Austin Energy will bring a proposal to the City Council next week to fund more utility relief, Deputy general manager Cary Overton says. Since the pandemic began, roughly 15,000 households have gotten relief, but much more is needed. We had an initial Influx of $10 million. That council proved that was added in April. 2022 the plus one funding utility will request an additional $10 million for relief if you've fallen behind in payments, Overton says. It's vital that you contact the city because disconnections.
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"You mentioned something else that the City Council is kicking around as well. And that's adding another district. Another council person, the 11 1 plan. Where would this be? And why Well, it's because it's the strong mayor passes you would need. He even wouldn't be normal voting member of the council so you would have an even number of council members, then In in in the 10 10 1 system, so, adding an extra member would allow them to have and I have an odd number. But the funny thing is, is that they decided to do that as a separate ballot measure. So it is possible that the strong mayor does not pass and the extra Council member does pass. And then we're gonna have a council of 12. People would just be chaos. Hilarious. Attention. You know, 66 boats, their possible and I want to mention one more thing is this Proposal includes something called Democracy dollar right in under the radar, which is where they tell you. They take tax dollars $25 vouchers. They take tax dollars from all of the citizens, and then they give this $25 voucher to some citizens that they could donate to their politician of choice. Yes, The idea is that there's too much money in politics and basically that the poor people don't have can't don't have the ability to contribute to the candidates of their choice, and therefore we should take tax dollars, and it's It's not. It is tax dollars coming out of your Austin Energy Bill right away, So you're going to pay your often energy bill and then Austin Energy is going to turn around and funnel that horrible idea. What a mess. What a disaster. Really mad money literally. We were up against the clock here. There's been a lot of debates about getting kids back in schools. You know, the CDC says it's safe. The Joe Biden administration is trying to push back and maybe go toe one day a week. In some district. Some districts have been back for months and weeks. Others they're kind of doing a combination of things. Where should our kids be? And school and cool hand down the your school board. Elections are going to also happen in May. So I have a great friend running for school board on the end, Iasi, you guys pay attention. Think about running pay attention to those races. We've got to get kids back in school. And speaking of I'm gonna explain to Juliet preschool teacher that said that I'm late to school because of you could use because they may not make it hot and don belly button. Well, it's a story that has to be Oh, well, that's all. It's gonna be covered. It's extreme covered. Thanks for making room. Elena. Tell folks how to find you. You can find me on all kinds of social media at Ellen Trucks Clear or on my website Ellen. Trucks there dot com. Thank you. I appreciate your call. Stay with us. We got the top stories coming up at the top of the hour. Of course, you could always jump in and 51283605 Niner your belly button. The girl back according to one texture is that right now that you got the vaccine, that belly button should grow back, Todd and don show I want to tell you about my friend Brad. He's the owner and operator of Zero rez here in town. And yes, they got a service. Clean all of your surfaces. But I want to tell you about their carpet cleaning business. They are the true home health experts. And if this is the way that the carpet manufacturers actually suggest you clean your carpets, it's what the powerful truck mounted system. It's going to suck the dirt, the dust, the pet hair and all of the contaminants that are trapped deep inside your carpet fibers, and Brad tells me this will improve your indoor air quality. It'll help those who suffer from allergies and asthma, of course, but no toxic chemicals would be brought into your home and zero brands. They have a service for all of your services, carpet.
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"Is your opportunity to practice Protect the students around the U. T drag. Listen. The Transportation Department has these massive lights, You know that they use it. Construction sites. You know, they almost blind you sometimes when you drive through at night. How about get a few of those over near the drag to keep the kids safe? I'm not that they say that. No matter minute you could make a phone call Mayor Strong Mayor. Get off your hands and make a decision. Instead, the West campus safety remains a concern for people in the area following another result that's being investigated. This week. Emily Crone with the student group called Horns for safety, She tells CBS Austin that living near the campus is just not worth the risk any more. Times have felt very uncomfortable fucking room. I definitely think that lighting needs to improve no doubt Two years ago, the city said that 228 new lights were needed in the West campus area. And that was going to cost $2.3 million. The city's plan to install lights over the next five years. Austin Energy still working on a contract with an engineer, too, meant to install light bulbs. How come you can't call the transportation Department this morning when they open their doors at nine o'clock and get some lights over on the drag? I know if they're on a trailer. I know exactly what you're talking about. A C l u have to see the amount of things they those life They have lined up for a shell. Ready to G O Man. They're putting everywhere. Yeah, it's an odd set of priorities here. They don't care. They don't think They don't think there's a safety problem on the drag. I don't think there's a safety problem when it comes to homelessness. They don't believe this young student who's concerned about her safety, and it's a very, very odd set of eyes. These people have and certainly a non set of brains. That's for sure. Heck, I bet the University of Texas has very similar lighting and a lighthouse right now on campus. I do. Of course they do. Of course they do. Why can't this get fixed? I don't know. What's the holdup? The only thing I can imagine is they just don't believe that there's a concern for safety. They have so much lighting that they could have over there in an hour. Literally that it would look like daylight there. 24 7. Maybe there's a construction company in town that wants to donate some lights. Just for some good PR. How about maybe one on each end of the drag? Just a light things up? Yep. Yep, And it was also helped those workers putting up the permanent lights with their job. I would think it would help them do the job faster because they could work 24 7 and get it done. Please met 100. Years ago. They were faster putting up the moon towers. We put up moon towers because there was a concern serial killer. Right, uh, or something into that effect around Austin. So they erected towers a dozen of towers in a matter of days. Yes. Sir. They're cowards. Man in city Home, John in north Austin. Good morning. Yeah, great show. It's just another example of the richest university in the world. Put up the money. If the electrician's hired it done this weekend, may have to mean well, listen. This area is not under the University of Texas jurisdiction. It's It's the city of Austin's responsibility, but I kind of think Yeah, but at this point that UT needs to step up. Well, yes. So what I say is, it is awesome Responsibility, either UT or private organization, go upon me with the money Raised and pick a receipt on the city of Boston door and say you need to reimburse me for this. They sure if it doesn't happen this month, so much of your fired, that's it. Bottom line. Listen, they direct those lights around that new stadium pretty quick, really quickly. Whatever. And we kind of need those life and boy do you move the lights 200 yards over to the West campus. Yeah, Yeah, It's ridiculous, and it's forced the city of Boston and any events we have around here. It's amazing how fast things go up for four events in Austin. How quickly they get it done. I do not understand that cutting edge progressive City with all this technology building a soccer stadium overnight building a Tesla factory overnight. You got the massive Amazon warehouse and Pflueger Ville. That's going up. You got a flu gerbil pedestrian bridge that can go up on the whims notice a temporary hospital set up, they could Mention center barely. But this guy that wants to be a strong mayor sitting on his hands when it comes to keeping people safe on the streets around the UT camp. I don't know You're listening to the best of Todd and don on news. Radio K o b. J Right now you're listening to the best of the Todd and don show But stay with us. We're live coming up at 5 30 on news. Radio K.
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"Lake Travis, Leander, Maynor, Pflueger, Ville, Round Rock and Taylor. District on a two hour delay include bass Drop Dripping Springs, Lockhart, Luling and Wimberly. Snowy conditions have left thousands of people without power. Marissa Mon Roi with Austin Energy tells CBS Austin Snow accumulation weighed down branches on the power line by midweek last week that we might be facing a situation so we made sure we had extra crews ready and on hand about 37,000. People did have to deal with how outages at last report, which came in around midnight, Austin Energy says it was still trying to get the power back on for about 4000. Customers and crews have been working through the night. Get that done. Also in the news, the wintry weather is the reason the city of Austin says it's online coronavirus. Dashboard has not been updated over the past day. The most recent number of hospitalizations reported by the county's 586 of the overall 55,870 cases found over the past 10 months 6044 active 49,257 or recoveries. Central Texas bars have been ordered shut down, and restaurants have been ordered to operate at half capacity that took effect this weekend. After at least 15% of Central Texas hospital beds were made up of covert patients for seven straight days. Austin's mayor Steve Adler, says You can still help out local businesses by shopping online or working with curbside delivery. Please try to support our local businesses, much as she can. If there's an opportunity that tip, please over tip Because those folks needed the same. Local health officials say this rollback is a concerning reminder that Austin Travis County is in a deadly covert surge. John Cooley News Radio K. L. B. J And so the Austin Convention Center is.
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Austins population is booming. Its energy consumption is not.
"When a city grows, the demand for energy usually goes up justice fast but not in Austin Texas though we're having significant increases in population, our consumption is relatively flat. That's Manual Garza of Austin Energy the city utility. He says, Mandatory Energy on help keep Austin's energy use down these inspections review a building's energy use and identify ways to reduce it. For, example auditors examined windows, insulation and heating and cooling systems. In Austin Commercial Properties must have these audits annually and apartment buildings every ten years in single family homes if your house over ten years old and audit is required at the time of sale and that's intended to give disclosure to the buyer. So if they're buying a home made, it only has a four inches of installation is that something they want to do prior to moving in? If people decide to improve efficiency Austin energy offers programs to help. For example, it provides free weatherization improvements to low and moderate income customers. So. With information and resources people can make their homes more efficient and help keep Austin's carbon pollution in check.
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"Newsradio klbj i'm eric welcome visitors to liberty island were evacuated after a protester decided to scale the base of the statue of liberty this man says he saw the woman climb the statue he was wearing black tights like leotards and a black shirt nothing that indicated that she was a protester i couldn't see any logos on a t shirt or any kind of a flag it just looked like a crazy person climbing up the side of the pedestal police took her into custody over two and a half inches of rainfall was reported in some parts of us in this july fourth the rains prompted a temporary halt evacuation of the willie nelson july fourth picnic it's the circuit of the americas thousands of austin energy customers in north west boston were without power up.