Posted on 02/17/2021 8:00:32 AM PST by karpov
“Texas relies on wind turbines for one-fourth of its electric power. “
Oh, Texas, how could you allow morons to govern you?
They didn’t. They went cheap and didn’t get winterized wind turbines. Idiots. This won’t happen in the northeast.
It’s far more complicated than wind turbines. Max capacity on the Texas stand-alone power grid is geared towards summertime and the high A/C demand that comes with it. Many generation facilities are shut down during the winter with little or no winterization done. So those facilities were unable to come up when needed, despite several days of warning that this cold snap was coming.
Pathetic planning on the part of ERCOT and the utility companies in question. The frozen turbines further compounded the issue and turned it into a crisis. ERCOT has to demand far more redundancy in the way of gas generators to match at least half the wind capacity if needed. Redundancy costs money but saves lives.
Oh, Texas, how could you allow morons to govern you?
Pretty sure we didn't get to vote for it. Damn things are a freaking eyesore on the land.....
New Jersey has the 2nd largest Nuclear Complex in the country, the Salem/Hope Creek facility produces about 3,572 Megawatts over 3 reactors
The facility produces about half the state’s power needs
Any reports about the electric vehicle situation in Texas and the mid-west. So far I have seen nothing but I can assume that there were a lot of dead vehicles trapped on the highways do to dead batteries.
Yes, it will... take a look at what’s happening in Germany for your “brilliant northeast” version of wind turbines and solar panel “energy” generation.
Not to worry.
Soon, snow will be a thing of the past. Future generations will never be able see or play in it.
/algore
I don’t give a crap about Germany. That’s the problem with “one world” types like you. Had we not gotten involved in other countries, we’d be better off. But people like you for some stupid reason love to nosey around the world.
Should be a stark lesson for all green energy is the way to go advocates
what the need to do is to determine what the maximum power demanded during a crisis was and make sure going forward that we have enough power plants to cover that need NOT counting ONE FREAKING windmill! The windmills should be EXTRA, over and beyond what we would need in a crisis.
“Pretty sure we didn’t get to vote for it.”
It’s likely you did vote for it and just didn’t realize it at the time. As usual in the political world, Follow The Money (FTM) is the basic root cause analysis tool. The money in those unsightly wind turbines is that they don’t make money without the associated tax breaks. Since you’re on FR, I’m sure you know the source of those tax breaks is Congress. Those Congressional representatives get there in 2 ways: votes and $$$$. See the connections now???
So those facilities were unable to come up when needed, despite several days of warning that this cold snap was coming.”
how long does it take to get a facility up and running? just curious. like a week or two? Or...?
They won’t have this problem in the northeast because Massachusetts sucks and New York blows.
Texas did not buy the more expensive winterized units with special lubricants. They fuarked up thinking it would never get cold.
Do not blame this on wind turbines. I just drove through the mountains of W.Va and it is cold tha their turbines are still moving.
Same as with frozen gas pumps. The pumps in my marcellus shale region are are working just fine because they were winterized.
Sick and tired of blow hard texans telling how great they are.
“And yet, the northeast intends to become heavily reliant on offshore wind.”
Curious. I wonder how they’re going to get this past the uber-wealthy NIMBY Celebutards who live off the East Coast?
Gov Abbott is finished in Texas, he wanted to be Mr Wind Power. How is that working out for you Gov Abbott.
“They went cheap and didn’t get winterized wind turbines.”
New info there - was not aware of that so I hope we get to read more on that as the TX situation unwinds in coming weeks. Lots of finger-pointing exercises to come & somebody is going to be left standing without a chair when the music stops.
I have no idea. Just came across that article today.
It could be they simply cannot run in such cold weather. Or that they are managed by idiots. Or both.
There seldom is a single point of failure in such a catastrophe.
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