Texas could have had zero electricity from renewable sources and it still wouldn’t have prevented the gas plants from freezing up and the coal and nuke plants from shutting down and the lights from going out. None of the electricity infrastructure was prepared to cope with the weather that they got. Conversely, Texas could have gotten the majority of their electricity from renewable sources and had they installed generators that were able to deal with winter weather then the power would have stayed on. It was the fact that the utility chose not to equip for severe winter weather that is to blame.
Apparently they had a similar, though less catastrophic, event in 2011. What were they doing for the last decade? Oh yeah, virtue signaling about all their wind farms.
Look long and hard at the graph I posted. Was wind pulling its weight?
I think we can safely put the fear of global warming to rest.
Texas could have had zero electricity from renewable sources and it still wouldn’t have prevented the gas plants from freezing up and the coal and nuke plants from shutting down and the lights from going out. None of the electricity infrastructure was prepared to cope with the weather that they got. Conversely, Texas could have gotten the majority of their electricity from renewable sources and had they installed generators that were able to deal with winter weather then the power would have stayed on. It was the fact that the utility chose not to equip for severe winter weather that is to blame.
Thank you! Someone else gets it. I am appalled at the number of people who somehow expect Cruz to overcome the bad optics of his vacation and return to Texas to fix the problem.
Blame the utilities and state government for lack of preparation to a rare but predictable event. Another “once in a century storm” that seem to happen every decade.
I can keep my gutters flowing in the winter on the border with Canada for a few hundred bucks and some basic preparation but natural gas plants in Texas can’t heat their water reserves and pipes?
Bull poopy. Had coal and nuke provided 20 percent more baseline power it would work. That’s 20 percent more coal and 20 percent more nuke.
“Opportunity Cost”