As opposed to Texas officials signing away 23% of our power grid to wind for green activists to get them to be quiet?
Yeah, all those worthless damned windmills are FROZEN IN PLACE and WILL NOT WORK with all that snow and ice clogging them up!!! Yeah, get rid of coal and oil. Let’s freeze our asses off in Siberia, formerly known as Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. States THAT SHOULD BE AT 60 DEGREES RIGHT NOW BUT ARE BELOW ZERO!!! Oh, right, GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE BY TRUMP is at fault. Not their stupid ideas to place our heat and power on a bunch of worthless windmills where over HALF do not work at any one time!!! We drove by one of those out west one time when we were on vacation. It was like 95 degrees and burning hot. But, at this windmill farm we passed, fewer than 25 percent of the damned things were turning!!! 75% were not working!!!
Don’t blame Texas officials for this. I was in the Electricity Industry ten years ago when Luminant was slating its coal plants for closure. Even then, the CEO said he did not know a single energy executive that would think about constructing a new coal-fired plant in the U.S. due to the immense regulations out of Washington.
That the wind plants were allowed to effectively bid ‘free electricity’ because of their comparable low-cost and limited use is what allowed them to always operate when available, and they benefited from the growing demands of the electricity market. As they grew in scope, other plants like coal and NG were continuously moth-balled for the winter months when there is less electricity demand.
It is not easy to bring a moth-balled plant back online, and very difficult to do on a short-notice. Thus, when a weather event like this takes place, bad things happen.
Perhaps, Texas Officials can learn from this and place a percentage cap on how much electricity can be provided by wind and solar.