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Cruz is right, put down the political axe it won’t help out . Green energy had nothing to do with this historic event. The lack of winterization of our power plants and specifically our natural gas grid did cause this. Us industry professionals told the RRC in 2011 to winter harden the gas grid and they ignored the Intel. Texas has more than enough gas turbines in spinning reserves as required by Error to take every single wind turbine down at a 15 minutes notice. This is Ercots down policy. For every megawatt of wind in the current power mix 1.15 OR MORE megawatts of reserves are held specifically to back it up. The gas grid failed and with it more than 60% of Texas total capacity know the difference between generation capacity and generation production totals. The fact is had the gas grid not gone into.critical shortage it.is.irrelevant that wind was frozen. ERCOT only counts on 1/3 of total installed capacity of wind in the winter and wind is only 31,000 of 125,000 total capacity so 10,000 of 125,000 megawatts. Wind did not cause This the professionals who have access to the real time data watched in horror as 42,000 megawatts of.thermal.capacity fell off line in under half an hour and the grid frequency dropped to 59.2 Hz at that level the grid should have collapsed totally. It is only divine providence that the grid held up.while at first 10,000 megawatts was shed then another 5000. Had the grid gone down a never before attempted black start would have had to be initiated the estimates are 3 weeks to over 5 for the whole grid to come back on line as each plant must black start spin up synchronise and phase match. The report will be presented to the legislature and what will be in it the main cause of load shedding was lack of winterized gas wells, feeder lines, lack of h2o scrubbers from said lines and lack of winterized power plant coolant intakes, and coolant towers. Let me be absolutely clear from a industry professional Texas can shut every wind turbine and solar panel down and still have over 80,000 megawatts of capacity the record high demand was set this week at 69,000 megawatts do the math. We need an honest not political motivated assessment and that means looking at what actually happened so it will never happen again we need to follow the professionals direction harden our gas grid and every power plant to sub zero temps. We need to bury below the first line gather lines not play plastic HDPE plastic on the surface and we need to mine out salt time natural gas storage space to hold at least 50 billion cubic feet that’s two days of reserves in gas storage. That is what will really prevent this from happening again. Pointing the finger at 5,000 megawatts out of the expected 10,000 while ignoring the 40,000+ thermal megawatts that dropped out is just political axe grinding and not useful at all.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/