Did some work at a gas plant in North Texas many years ago. Much of of the equipment was more exposed than the plants up north. In fact that was part of the reason I was there - to get some instruments to read the temperature and turn on heaters when it got cold like this. The flip side is, exposed, they had less problem with the high summer heat. Doesn’t help that they canceled so many coal plants and are trying to rely more on wind. They also have a problem that they are on their own grid and are limited on the power they can bring in from other states.
***Did some work at a gas plant in North Texas many years ago. Much of of the equipment was more exposed than the plants up north.***
Years ago the company I worked for built a coal fired power plant in East Texas. It was built to the warm weather standards there.
Then the company decided to build another plant 300 miles north in Arkansas and built it to the same standards, after all, Texas and arkansas join!
When we started this hog up, the first winter we experienced all sorts of cold weather problems you would not believe! Frozen water lines, air lines (driers didn’t work) frozen caustic lines, exposed everything!
They spent the next few years insulating and covering and wrapping things which should never have been left undone.
We dreaded EVERY winter!