Are you sure that’s true?
I’ve read that wind is not calculated to add ANYTHING to the base gen output.
If they have wind, they use it instead of whatever, but the base capacity has to be in place.
No, it’s not true, just an oft-repeated tale.
The main problem is that gas lines that powered several generating plants FROZE, thus lessening significantly the amount of power being produced.
It was extraordinarily cold weather, period.
And it will happen again.
Our forefathers lived through worse.
Read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “The Long Winter” and count your blessings.
I had not seen this article when I wrote the previous post, but it’s in today’s paper and explains well what happened: