it was the damn windmills that froze! who the hell from Texas approved making 25% of our power reliant on the freaking WIND!!>!>!>????
Abbott obviously. He’s in charge. Buck stops with him. There’s no way he didn’t approve it. Hell, The entire legislature is republican so there’s that.
Why don't windmills freeze in places like Iowa, Minnesota, and North Dakota?
Do not confuse total power consumption vs installed power capacity. The 25% is total consumption. Texas has over 125,000 megawatts of installed capacity wind is only 31,000 of that. Texas has more than enough capacity to not use a single.electron of wind power. Peak demand record was set monday night at 69,000 megawatts at that time 42,000 megawatts of thermal capacity was falling offline due to the cold or lack of natural gas. Leaving 52000 megawatts plus 5600 megawatts of wind it was then a stage 3 emergency and 10,000 megawatts of demand was shed.immediately via blackouts. The grid frequency dropped to 59.2 hz which is near total collapse and another 5000 megawatts was shed immediately the grid.recovered to 59.6hz and stabilized just under 60 this is as close to total collapse as one can come if the grid went down a black start would take weeks to synchronise and restart it. Wind helped keep 5600 megawatts online and thats 56000 homes that would have been dropped as well. I.watched the ercot live data stream all night Monday Texas came within a few minutes of being without power for three weeks to a month in some places it.could have been.apocalyptic. The failure.was thermal power had none of it.failed and every turbine gone down nothing would have been shed.