This problem has been developing over a few decades.
We’ve shut down 95,000 MWs of RELIABLE 24/7/365 baseload coal generation since 2011. We sacrificed it for UNRELAIBLE green energy that doesn’t work when the sun doesn’t shine, when the wind doesn’t blow, and when it’s too cold.
Anyone like me who’s spent 40 years in the industry isn’t surprised in the slightest. We knew this day would come.
From that chart it looks like if they hadn’t of taken some coal fired plants off line in the last few weeks, they would have had enough power.
They like to push windmills and solar when the weather is good, when they shut down coal plants.
Looks like Texas is beholden to the greenies much too much!
The OAC types aren’t smart enough to have good back up
Also because the back up is scary old fossil fuels.
Excellent graph. Tells it all.