Posted on 02/17/2021 6:53:27 PM PST by karpov
While millions of Texans remain without power for a third day, the wind industry and its advocates are spinning a fable that gas, coal and nuclear plants—not their frozen turbines—are to blame. PolitiFact proclaims “Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage.” Climate-change conformity is hard for the media to resist, but we don’t mind. So here are the facts to cut through the spin.
Texas energy regulators were already warning of rolling blackouts late last week as temperatures in western Texas plunged into the 20s, causing wind turbines to freeze. Natural gas and coal-fired plants ramped up to cover the wind power shortfall as demand for electricity increased with falling temperatures.
Some readers have questioned our reporting Wednesday ("The Political Making of a Texas Power Outage") that wind’s share of electricity generation in Texas plunged to 8% from 42%. How can that be, they wonder, when the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) has reported that it counts on wind to meet only 10% of its winter capacity.
Ercot’s disclosure is slippery. Start with the term “capacity,” which means potential maximum output. This is different than actual power generation. Texas has a total winter capacity of about 83,000 megawatts (MW) including all power sources. Total power demand and generation, however, at their peak are usually only around 57,000 MW. Regulators build slack into the system.
Texas has about 30,000 MW of wind capacity, but winds aren’t constant or predictable. Winds this past month have generated between about 600 and 22,500 MW. Regulators don’t count on wind to provide much more than 10% or so of the grid’s total capacity since they can’t command turbines to increase power like they can coal and gas plants.
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What’s Biden doing? Trump would have already had help there.
Playing Mario Kart with his granddaughter.
When I was a kid, we had a large propane tank on our farm.
The guy would come and fill it up every so often.
If I were in the countryside, I’d have one of those if it
is still allowed.
And a communist country requires at least one capitalist country to steal from.
My question too! Biden’s Katrina
I have a ventless propane heater that I take with me where ever I go.
It served me well in the cold winters of north/ south Dakota.
I built a frame for it to hang on and it kept my camper very warm during the cold days of winter here in arizona
Only enough generation for estimated max requirement in best conditions.
Dad was a EE beginning with Texas Electic.
As the company changed hands & names, he said that forecasting demands was never in the plans. Just catching up to the demands was to be the norm, nothing more.
Texas screwed up plain and simple.
Texas requires 24 million barrels of natural gas per day. Natural gas transmission lines froze and was only able to deliver 12-14 million per day and plants had to be shut down. Texas felt they did not need water separators on their transmission lines.They were told to do so in 2011 the last time they had below average temps.
This is why in my great state above the largest gas deposits in the country we have water separators..something Texas felt they did not need.
Read this aerticle and it explains fully why Texas is out of electric power.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/
You have to ask the point you posed . . . “if allowed”? I guess government overreach is now focused on the AOC faction in our “new progressive” government. We’re screwed!!!
Great meme, Matt!
We MUST press this issue!
“Renewable Energy” as it has been crafted by LIEberals is a total fail scam, and MUST be rendered irrelevant!
Top of the hour news had harris sending thoughts but no prayers or aid.
Well DUH Wall Street Journal.....
The Perfect Storm,
Thanks.
>>While millions of Texans remain without power for a third day, the wind industry and its advocates are spinning a fable that gas, coal and nuclear plants—not their frozen turbines—are to blame. PolitiFact proclaims “Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage.” Climate-change conformity is hard for the media to resist, but we don’t mind. So here are the facts to cut through the spin.
Natural Gas has been producing 65% of the energy today in Texas (all day) and wind about 8%.
https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/daily_generation_mix/regional/REG-TEX
>>While millions of Texans remain without power for a third day, the wind industry and its advocates are spinning a fable that gas, coal and nuclear plants—not their frozen turbines—are to blame. PolitiFact proclaims “Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage.” Climate-change conformity is hard for the media to resist, but we don’t mind. So here are the facts to cut through the spin.
Natural Gas has been producing 65% of the energy today in Texas (all day) and wind about 8%.
https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/daily_generation_mix/regional/REG-TEX
In the USA there is absolutely NO NEED for windmills or solar panels to provide us with One Watt of energy. None. A country that was so very recently a Net Exporter of oil and NatGas has no need for such.
FEMA is sending portable Generators, diesel fuel and blankets
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