[SecondAmendment]

From the proverbial horse's mouth, ERCOT 2021 Generation by Fuel spreadsheet.
Go to the "Summary" tab and you will see 25% of the ERCOT grid's generation is from wind.

Now go to the ERCOT Real-Time System Conditions page.You will see that the windfarms are currently producing 11% of total capacity as I calculate it right now.

The electricty mess here in Texas is due to unreliables™, CASE CLOSED.

[bgill]

Look at Georgetown, TX winning a gold star last year for green energy. Those solar panels and wind turbines don’t seem to be working today.

[Thud]

Texas wanted its electric power to be as cheap as possible and so skimped on most to almost all of the features required to make it reliable, such as adequate reserves, cold-weather proofing for natural gas wells and pipelines, plus wind-power equipment, etc.

Now Texans are shocked, SHOCKED! to discover that this means they sometimes freeze to death in the dark. The tiny violins are sobbing.

[wjcsux]

I worked at a power plant many years ago in Arizona. We had one of our big units trip in the middle of the summer during the heat of the day. Fortunately, we had adequate reserve power to cover the outage. You don’t just turn a generating unit back on, it takes several hours.

[TigersEye]

#GreenEnergyKills

[zeestephen]

Does anyone have a link for how much installed solar capacity Texas has?

The posted article states 5,700 MW.

That sounds wrong.

Texas had 5,500 MW of solar capacity in 2019.

They had plans to expand that to 15,000 MW by the end of 2021.

Maybe COVID put the brakes on that plan?

On the other hand, it sounds like the article might be confusing output with capacity.

In any event, Texas has at least 37,700 MW of Green Energy capacity.

If Texas had built 37,700 MW of coal and nuclear capacity instead, they would have been EXPORTING electricity to neighboring states for the last two weeks!

[lowbridge]

Bump