Posted on 02/15/2021 7:20:08 AM PST by Hojczyk
Nearly half of the wind turbines in the state of Texas froze in recent winter weather, hurting state power supplies, according to state authorities.
Nearly half of Texas’ installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, according to Texas grid operators.
Wind farms across the state generate up to a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy. But unusually moist winter conditions in West Texas brought on by the weekend’s freezing rain and historically low temperatures have iced many of those wind turbines to a halt.
As of Sunday morning, those iced turbines comprise 12,000 megawatts of Texas’ installed wind generation capacity, although those West Texas turbines don’t typically spin to their full generation cap
The outlet noted that the loss of power was largely offset by the fact that the remaining turbines were spinning quickly because of strong winter storm winds.
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If only we could figure out how to harness the power of the atom.
natural gas doesn’t freeze...
It’s almost funny.
Almost.
Frack, Baby, Frack....
I’m in Upstate NY...Would love to see NYS wise up and take advantage of fracking.
Gee. Perhaps the Totalitarian Junta made a mistake banning oil & gas leasing and drilling permits.
Enjoy this global warming event. When we have global warming, everything gets really cold you know. /s/
Sheesh.....just put some electric heaters in those windmills.
Pretty funny. What would an F4 or F5 do if it rolled through some of these wind farms. That would be well worth seeing.
We don’t even have to go that far. We just need to see if we can somehow make use of that black, gooey stuff Jed Clampett found.
Someone was to climb that damn thing and change the weight of the oil in the reduction gears every winter, or it sludges up, you can heat your oil too, that is how we pump oil in the north during winter.
Odd, I thought by law, all “green, unreliable, energy, had to be backed up with fossil fuel sources?
Where they are doing fracking they are having an increase of earthquakes due to the fluid injection.
It’s not just Texas. This is happening all over Europe right now as well. And, it’s not just turbines. The deep freeze is significantly reducing the impact of solar output as well because - get this - when it gets cold, it often gets snowy and cloudy. Go figure.
If only we had some energy resources that weren’t dependent on ideal weather conditions to operate at peak efficiency.
2.6 is not an earthquake, that is uncle Jim blowing a fart...
And this is in Texas, where it doesn’t happen all that often...Consider depending on wind turbines in Minnesota, Ohio, New York, the Northeast...
LOL
A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.
Another special Texas winter edition for your perusal.
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Blessings, and stay warm!
That’s how you can tell it’s working, right?
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