Posted on 02/15/2021 4:45:26 PM PST by nagant
Nearly half of the wind turbines in the state of Texas froze in recent winter weather, hurting state power supplies, according to state authorities.
The Austin American-Statesman reported Sunday: ..... 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.
Millions of electricity customers across Texas suffered blackouts, partly due to the problems with the turbines, as the Washington Post reported: ..... The problems in Texas echo difficulties with renewable energy that California experienced during a heat wave in September, when there were rolling blackouts because there was no wind, while overcast skies meant there was little solar energy.
Wind supplies 23% of the energy in Texas and has been growing rapidly in the state. Texas is also the leading producer of wind energy in the nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
According to local talking heads 45% of area customers are without electric power because of insufficient generating capacity. Until about 30 years ago every electric customer had one electricity supplier to deal with. The supplier generated, distributed and sold electricity. If a power source was deemed unreliable then service providers would develop generation from reliable sources. Governor George W. Bush determined this method was unfair. He separated generation, distribution and billing entities.
Fast forward to today. A massive portion of Texas electric customers have bought into the scam of wind turbine generation. Add that, with the stroke of a pen, Joe Biden just precluded fixing this problem by canceling the Alaska gas pipeline. It could have fed actual reliable natural gas generators.
Obviously my power hasn’t been affected yet. Still though, I think the people without power right now should be the customers who signed up to buy power from wind generators.
They work really well on sunny days when the air is dry and the temperature is about 72. You can have plenty of electricity then. Other times ... not so much.
They’ll just double down on more wind turbines.
White wins again ,LOL
Do they already have a heater control system in each unit? Would it cope if so? If not - then this is completely dumb, we have a weak link for abundant power - just because it got cold.
What the hell is Texas doing with this farce of a power supply?
The blanket of whiteness.
This is sorta unrelated but has to do with natural gas prices. Something called spot pricing index? Anyway, it was on a video link produced this morning and I believe he was quoting some type of natural gas futures index, warning of astronomical increases on the horizon. I attempted to verify this but had no luck. Anybody hear anything related?
You can’t make a power grid, or anything else, that GUARANTEES!!! 100% of anything, 100% of the time.
Anybody who promises the above is a fool, or a Commie liar.
I’m in Harris County, just north of Houston. I, and 45% of Centerpoint users, are without power. I did not choose a wind plan. Centerpoint did not harden its phone or computer systems before the storm, so customers cannot contact them and they haven’t sent out any network wide text messages. I have not heard one bit of info from Centerpoint to the media all day. I have been without power since 2am and no contact from the company that supplies my power.
“They work really well on sunny days when the air is dry and the temperature is about 72. You can have plenty of electricity then. Other times ... not so much.”
If you don’t mind bird extinction turbines are great ...unless you need them.
There used to be a bumper sticker about environmentalists freezing to death in the dark.
I was really saddened to see all of those wind turbines along I-40 in western OK and the TX panhandle.
Those “conservative” areas sucked into the wind turbine crap.
Quick!
Submit a patent application for heated wind turbines!
Pedotus has proclaimed that this
proves GLOBAL WARMING is coming
in 9 years, AND the US must invest
more on wind turbines NOW.
I’ll keep my Generac thank you.
I’m in Montgomery county, have Entergy. Got 3 emails this morning around 6, lost power at 5. Since then, nothing and of course you cant contact them and ask a question.
Going on 14 hours, and the firewood stack is pretty low now.
I’m sure everything will better after it warms up, in 4 days or so.
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