Thank you!!!
And what happened here was failure to winterize any of the crap pre-2010 stuff — nat gas, coal, nuclear — AND the turbines and solar panels. 3 of our 4 nuclear plants stayed online. The fourth was undergoing maintenance and got brought back online yesterday, it will be at full operations later today.
For most of TX south of the Waco-San Angelo-Tyler line, that made economic sense. Most of the stuff in the Panhandle, North Texas and West TX was winterized and continued working. But who in the hell could have projected that turbines sitting in the heat sink of the Gulf Of Mexico would freeze up! This freeze is killing the Gulf sea turtles too.
The systems that were unprotected against 0 degree temps failed. Old and new. I love my friends that are in the oil & gas biz, but it simply is not accurate to blame the wind farms failing for what has happened here.
The fourth was undergoing maintenance and got brought back online yesterday, it will be at full operations later today.
Any data on MW’s that one produces?