On demand "tankless" water heaters do not require gasoline powered generators to run the two manually set knob controls. One sets the "fire height" and the other (as best as I can tell) sets the water flow rate that lights the flame. No external power source is required. Snap in 2 x C cells. That is all.
Not sure about recent trends, but no single family house in TX had anything but gas central heat and electric cooling, or a fireplace and evaporative "desert" cooler.
ERCOT's daily real time Capacity (red) & Demand (green) curves
Does that graph update when this page is reloaded? I think it should, if it has had time to change..
http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/main/currentDayForecastSystemLoad.png?uniquenessFactor=161362
I think this one will update too. The graphs above seem to be static or rather "frozen".
[img [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/loadForecastVsActualCurrentDay.png[/URL]
There is no such thing as "winterization" design in TX!
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This hat is the best you'll get. What's worse on a more common basis is that they won't put up a sunshade either. Except over the bosses' pickup. Speaking of pickup, Dont pick up no wrench in August.
Actually, it was the new demands created by all the Californian immigrants that caused this problem!
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