Ridiculous. Natural gas does not freeze. The natural gas pipelines are buried (i.e. insulated/weatherized with dirt). The problem is the massive load on the grid from people trying to keep their houses warm enough that their water pipes don’t freeze and break. Houses in southeast Texas are built to withstand the occasional overnight temperature of 29-32 degrees, but not a week of sustained below freezing temperatures.
You both are clueless. Here is marcellus/Utica country with zero temps the norm in winter we winterize the natural gas pumping stations with systems to remove the water vapor from the gas drilling process.
Per DM article: The Texas EROT commission said in 2011 or 2012 Texas was unprepared for a extreme weather condition and told power and gas companies to winterize their infrastructure but most did not. “Poor winter infrastructure in Texas has brought the natural gas system grinding to a halt, with drilling fluid freezing in gas pipes, frozen wellheads unable to produce, and diesel-fueled pumps refusing to start.
Even coal plants went offline as coal piles were frozen to the ground, and one of the two reactors of the South Texas Nuclear Power Station had to be shut down after the cooling pumps froze.
While similar facilities in the Northern states are equipped to handle extended temperatures below freezing, Texas, which hasn’t experienced a similar cold snap in a decade, simply didn’t have the infrastructure in place to weather the storm.”
“Natural gas does not freeze”
Oh it sure does when it has water vapor mixed in from the fracking and drilling process . Texas requires 24 million barrels per day. Transmission lines froze and was only able to deliver 12-14 million per day and plants had to be shut down.
This is why in my great state above the largest gas deposits in the country we have water separators..something Texas felt they did not need.
Read this aerticle and it explains fully why your state is out of electric power.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/