Texas desperately needs dissolution mined salt cavity natural gas storage that’s dispatchable and we need to either go back to pipeline pumps being gas powered or have back ups for the electric pumps be it dedicated grid lines or diesel engines. Once failure started in the gas system it cascaded. The last thing you shut down is residential gas flows , having to relight all those pilots and also gas is a life line fuel people are using stoves and ovens and fireplaces to stay alive.
Thanks for posting the article. I went snooping around for how it is done in the midwest. We use depleted aquifers and a few smaller depleted reservoirs. They fill them up before it starts getting cold, then draw them down when it is cold. Looks to be roughly a 6 month cycle. I sure there have been some lean times when the gulf gets shutdown because of hurricanes, but it looks to me they keep plenty in reserve if that should occur..
So were pipeline compressor stations all electric for cost savings, or because of environmental regulations?
And if electrical, it’s mind boggling they wouldn’t have a natgas engine generator as backup.