February 2021 — cold caused energy demands to spike, natural gas production and power plants were knocked out.
Climate change did it, right? The state was broiling and the high heat knocked out fuel supplies and took down generators, right?
No, record COLD did that.
Of course, we all know record cold is caused by global warming..
What did it was shutting down coal plants all across Texas and way overbuilding windmills and solar plants because people like T Boone Pickens, and the other Bush/Perry Nomenklatura got to gorge at the government trough with tax rebates.
Solar and windmills have no ability for surge, and they get killed by cloudy skies and an ice storm. Natural gas plants had vulnerability because of pipelines. A pile of coal on the ground works just fine no matter the weather. It’s an absolute national embarrassment for Texas I have an energy shortage. The only thing that causes this is government miss management. And not all from DC. Help a lot of it from Austin.