In most ways it did. According to authorities from the utility, 16 gigawatts of electricity was lost from the renewable sources being down and 30 gigawatts was lost from coal, gas, and nuclear plants being down. All due to the storm and cold.
How does the northern states and Canada keep the lights on in winter?
Very interesting!
Your linked article says they recommended implementing measures to prevent the coal/gas shut-down issues after a 2010 cold snap had a similar effect, but that they haven’t yet done the upgrades. These plants could adapt for cold much easier than they can adapt windmills and solar for ice and snow.
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.
From memory, Texas is #1 in wind power and #2 in solar power in the USA.
How much coal, gas, and nuclear back up would they normally have for coal, gas, and nuclear plants that went down during extreme weather?
In other words, does Texas, or any other heavy Green Energy state, have sufficient fossil fuel or nuke back up when Green Energy electric out put drops to 10% of capacity?
Also, no mention of how much solar electric has dropped off in Texas.
In most ways it did. According to authorities from the utility, 16 gigawatts of electricity was lost from the renewable sources being down and 30 gigawatts was lost from coal, gas, and nuclear plants being down. All due to the storm and cold.