Posted on 02/15/2021 5:03:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - Ice storms knocked out nearly half the wind-power generating capacity of Texas on Sunday as a rare deep freeze across the state locked up turbine towers while driving electricity demand to record levels, the state's grid operator reported.
Responding to a request from Governor Greg Abbott, President Joe Biden granted a federal emergency declaration for all 254 counties in the state on Sunday, authorizing U.S. agencies to coordinate disaster relief from severe weather in Texas.
The winter energy woes in Texas came as bone-chilling cold, combined with snow, sleet and freezing rain, gripped much of the United States from the Pacific Northwest through the Great Plains and into the mid-Atlantic states over the weekend.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state's grid operator, issued an alert asking consumers and businesses to conserve power, citing record-breaking energy demands due to extreme cold gripping the state.
"We are dealing with higher-than-normal generation outages due to frozen wind turbines and limited natural gas supplies available to generating units," the agency said.
Wind farms in West Texas, stricken by weekend ice storms, were particularly hard hit.
Wind generation ranks as the second-largest source of energy in Texas, accounting for 23% of state power supplies last year, behind natural gas, which represented 45%, according to ERCOT figures.
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But,but I thought there were going to be Palm trees and alligators in Minnesota by now. And the coastlines would be under 20 ft of water. I guess I missed something.
Let us get rid of all the coal fired generaters, what could go wrong?
I’m sure all of our prairie propellers in Kansas are froze up too.
The idiot in the White House will not see a power outage. There are backup sources of power, fueled by PETROLEUM products. His secret service fleet of limosines are all powered by petroleum products.
Snow plows, ambulances, police cars, trucks, tow trucks, sanding trucks are all powered by petroleum products. There is no way our mechanized society can function on solar/wind power. And that explains why the left wants to eliminate petroleum products - to bring down our mechanized society and return us to the stone age.
(except for the ruling elite, which will keep its gas cars and iphones.)
A couple of big, fat 2000MW coal plants with a 60 day inventory piled up in storage would look mighty sweet right now.
That SOB T. Boone Pickens did so much damage to TX. This is mostly his fault.
Soy Boys.
Wonder what their estrogen levels are?
NUTS!
(on 2nd thought looking at pic? may be nutless)
Kimberlee Priestap (Twitter)
“What have we learned from this massive winter storm? Solar panels covered in thick blankets of snow don’t produce energy. Wind turbines frozen from subzero winds and unmoving don’t produce energy. When you need it the most, green energy means no energy.”
Lots of good discussion, info, and links in this earlier thread on this event:
State power grid warns of rotating outages if electricity demand overwhelms supply [ Texas ]
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3934509/posts
all the power you need until you need it
Leftists are so damn stupid, declares Captain Obvious.
-2 in Tulsa this morning.
Those Biden Executive Orders to change the weather are working a little too fast and we’ll, aren’t they? Oh, I forgot, it’s colder because it’s warmer. Yeah, that’s the ticket ...
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