Psaki Says Coal and Natural Gas – NOT Frozen Wind Turbines Caused Power Grid Failure in Texas Cold Snap (VIDEO)

GP ^ | February 17, | Cristina Laila

[White Lives Matter]

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday said coal and natural gas – NOT frozen wind turbines – caused the power grid failure in this week’s Texas cold snap.

Texas got hit with a rare cold snap that spanned to the southern part of the state and the power grids gave out.

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Millions of Texans suffered blackouts partly due to the frozen wind turbines.

Psaki said reports suggesting renewables caused the power grid failure in Texas are inaccurate, rather it was renewables that came in to save the day.

“Numerous reports show that it was failure in coal and natural gas that contributed to the state’s power shortages,” Psaki said.

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[IYAS9YAS]

Anyone who says a winter storm like this is rare in Texas hasnt spent time or grown up in Texas. Exactly right. Even back to the early statehood days, blue northers were famous. And I can’t count how many ice storms in Texas I’ve been through.

I was only stationed there (Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo) for six months 32 years ago and we got an ice storm that covered my car in 3/4" of solid ice.

[Jacquerie]

Follow the science, right?

Beginning with “the presidential election was stolen,” The Party added “frozen windmills contributed to cold wx deaths in TX” to its list of thought-crimes.

[zek157]

Gas pipelines did shut down due to reliance on electric pumps. These pumps had been gas, but were swapped out for electric for green kudos.

[Jrabbit]

FU

[Nomad577]

The natural gas/coal plants here are built to vent heat in the hot summer, and they didn’t pay to have them “weatherized” for the extreme cold because it only happens every 10 or so years

Only a small percentage of Texas power is wind turbines, so blaming it on them doesn’t make sense, but they didn’t “save the day” either

Also wind turbines can be “weatherized” for cold they have them in Canada, they just didn’t do that here either

[MagUSNRET]

She puts the “F” in stupid!

[MagUSNRET]

She puts the “F” in stupid!

[qaz123]

A sizable chunk of the population believes everything she says. And they all voted for Harris and Biden.

[IYAS9YAS]

Sorry. That was supposed to be 1/4-3/8” of solid ice, but my edit went wonky.

[CheneyClone]

Her type must not only be refuted but must be mocked and shamed into submission.

[odawg]

In addition to frozen wind turbines about 40 percent of other generators are offline too. Evidently winterizing is a lost art in Texas.

[DesertRhino]

Opening your eyes will suffice. That’s never happened before in Texas, as in never. If the power is out it was because a tornado went through an area, because an ice storm tore down powerlines. It was never sent around production and distribution facilities as a normal part of life.

[Hot Tabasco]

FWIW, the natural gas lines were frozen down but that doesn’t excuse the frozen wind turbines and snow covered solar panels.......

[databoss]

Its the pee on your leg and and tell you its raining crowd. The appalling thing is this ignorant/arrogant lightweight will get away with this.

[Bull Snipe]

Which proves once again, you don’t fool with mother nature.

Why do the wind turbines in North Dakota work and those in Texas do not. North Dakota winters are like this every year. Maybe the designers of the wind farms went cheap and decided that protection against freezing was not needed because it very rarely deep freezes in Texas. That’s what I would call poor planning.

[databoss]

Ginger Goebbels!!! Fantastic.

[_Jim]

Cold weather redux -

“Report on Outages and Curtailments During the Southwest Cold Weather Event of February 1-5, 2011”

https://www.balch.com/files/upload/NERC_8_16_2011_SW_Cold_Weather_Event_Final_Report.pdf

2-01-2011 Feb 2 2011 ERCOT blackouts

Also contains:

Impact of Cold Weather on Gas Production in the Texas
and New Mexico Gas Production Regions of the United
States During early February, 2011

Winterization Document
Prepared for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Prepared by Gas Technology Institute
by Kent F. Perry

o EEA 3 To maintain system frequency at 59.8 Hz or greater:
Instruct transmission operators to shed load via
rotating outages in blocks of 100 MW

Fom pg 188:

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Texas has recently enacted legislation to deal with the problem of inadequate winterization by generators. A bill was introduced in the Texas legislature following the February 2011 blackouts, with provisions directing the PUCT to prepare a weather emergency preparedness report, to review the emergency operations plans on file, and to recommend improvements to the plans to ensure electric service reliability. In introducing the bill, State Senator Glenn Hegar stated: “What I don’t want, is another storm and another report someone puts on the shelf for 21 years and nobody looks at.”

After a Senate Committee hearing, the bill was amended and unanimously adopted by the Texas Senate. The House unanimously passed the bill on May 23, and the bill was signed into law by Governor Richard Perry on June 17, 2011.

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“February Power Blackouts Across Texas echoed 1989 Failures”
By Eric Dexheimer
Austin American-Statesman, Apr. 10, 2011
Posted Apr 11, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Updated Dec 12, 2018 at 10:13 AM
https://www.statesman.com/article/20110411/NEWS/304119704

[PIF]

It was minus 27 in MN the other day and minus 14 here in WI; neither state had any brown or blackout of any sort or duration. Both use coal and gas power plants. something is rotten in the TX reporting.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

[Liz]

Jen Psaki, Biden’s Press Secy, is an excellent choice in many ways:

<><> she’s another Biden nitwit (probably a Biden cousin three times removed)
<><> cashing several govt paychecks, enrolled in several govt pension plans, filing reimbursement vouchers up the kazoo.
<><> Psaki’s comfortable appearing uninformed and unintelligent at her briefings WRT the Alleged President.
<><> She knows the obeisant media won’t call her out,
<><> She apparently doesn’t give a fig what the American people think.

CASE IN POINT: she offered a perfect example on video answering questions submitted via Twitter.
<><> Psaki reads out the question: “What is President Biden doing for my small business?”
<><> Psaki’s dimwitted response choice for the most important thing Biden has done for small businesses?

Drum roll please......“He nominated a woman to lead the Small Business Administration.”

Cue hysterical laughter here.

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REFERENCE By September 2020, nearly 100,000 small businesses had permanently closed across America. By November, just in New York and New Jersey, nearly one-third of all small businesses were gone. The lockdowns have decimated businesses in every Democrat-run state. Considering how important small businesses are to the economy, this is a deeply serious issue.