Why, what an interesting concept......let’s compare Texas to Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s generators may work at -40 Deg. F
But it has problems running clean elections.
Well duh.
Clearly Texas messed up by putting a bunch of lawyers who don’t even live there, Texas that is, in charge of their energy grid.
Plenty of blame to go around but Abbott’s the guy in charge.
JMHO.
Yeah usually our power generating plants dont go down
Its the lines that usually go down
It’s not the cold. It is the freezing rain.
I want our power grid to stay independent, they should plan for extreme weather better, not join the rest and then import power from other states.
I cannot stand seeing acres and acres of solar panels or big wind turbines— awful!
Then getting rid of those monstrosities after they are spent. Ugh!
Just wait until Wisconsin gets a summer of 100+ days for a whole week
Last time I checked, the Palo Verde Nuclear generating station in Arizona keeps running whether it’s 115 deg out (common in that area for about 4 months out of the year) or even when it’s freezing.
Funny, that.
And this is why Texas folks will not have to pay outrageous bills.
The company that builds all the wind generators in MN-WI-IA-NE is located in Iowa.
They are built for cold conditions and very reliable.
I suspect the ones in Texas were built by cheap labor and cheap engineers.
I wonder who made the decisions in Texas? Some bad ones were made clearly.
Because Texas has weather like this for a few days every 30-40 years. Should Texas spend like Wisconsin on this type of thing to minimize a freak event?
I’m not absolving Texas of the idiocy of having 25% of their grid coming from wind, but come on people. There is such a thing as ROI.
The Return On Investment of power generation equipment is far longer for equipment that costs more. Equipment that handles severe cold costs a lot more and Texas usually doesn’t get that kind of weather.
If you’d have just eliminated the freaking windmills (yeah, I know they are called turbines) they wouldn’t have had any problems. As it is the snowball rolled downhill and the fails cascaded.
Get used what we had for weather 50 years ago
From what I’ve read there are cold weather options the folks in Alaska and Norther states had added to their windmills that Texas did not purchase that allows them to operate in sub-zero temps.
Aren’t Texas property taxes sky high already? If they have to weather harden everything, I imagine they’ll go up even further.
What is the percent from each source?
Now, let’s see the Wisconsin grid hold up over four months of a Texas summer.
It won’t.
Wisconsin does not try and implement green energy idiocy in their energy mix
Hence the hullabaloo. Obama's buds built the windmills in TX for the average winter to put extra $$ in their pockets. In FL they don't build houses to withstand the last hurricane they build them to withstand the worst hurricane.