Posted on 02/19/2021 3:21:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yeah, that’s it. It’s them furriners again, durn em all.
Time for George Prescott Bush, spawn of Jebbie, to step up and explain his knowledge and understanding of the TEXAS power grid.
Where in the world is Governor Abbott? .... Same question.
This looks like Enron-2.
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Communists caused it. The end, case closed.
Microcosm of what the Leftists want for all of us.
Plain and simple - lack of PPP and action.
>Where in the world is Governor Abbott?
Don’t blame Abbott, he fought the Feds tooth and nail for years when he was AG over this crap...
This rather plays into the hands of people that don’t like Democrat run cities or a Democrat Oligarchy.
They cannot easily replace substation transformers that are
sabotaged. Small groups, untraceable, can easily disable power to major cities for months, perhaps years.
I’m not advocating this as FR is quick to ZOT! Just pointing out a weakness in the Grid.
Having seen what the DOE actually issued from this, it limited Texas to pre-freeze emissions, tying their hands.
Well, blaming it on frozen wind turbines didn't work, so this is the next logical step. Admitting Piss Poor Planning and pocketing profits rather than investing in infrastructure might have the torch and pitchfork folks looking at the utilities instead of greenies and chinese.
“...investing in infrastructure...”
The government provides incentives to invest in solar and wind. The government penalizes them for carbon emissions.
“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.” (Obama, 2008)
Who ordered that junk?
It’s not the place of the equipment’s origin; it’s the environmental extremism that required its use in the first place.
I’m not arguing that unreliable solar/wind projects are good, they are not. But they were not the primary cause of the outages. The problem was failure to upgrade existing plants, as previously recommended after the 2011 freeze. Twice as much Coal/Natural Gas/Nuclear capacity was offline compared to renewables like wind and solar. But everyone jumped on “frozen turbines”. Now it’s “chinese equipment”. People should do their own research and decide who to hold accountable.
ERCOT shut down 5,000 MW of coal energy production in 2018 alone to meet EPA regulations. I hold obama and the liberals accountable for some/most of this.
If you think about it, It would be hard for a super heated steam boiler to freeze up, and coal, nuke, and nat gas, all work making super heated steam to turn a turbine.
The Windmills make about 25% of Texas power on a spring day. I believe they were down to about 2% on the 15th. We pay large subsidies to them and they produce almost nothing and need a lot of maintenance. Texas has loads of lignite coal, almost useless for any other purpose and we forbid it's use. Nat Gas would be my second choice after coal, but make no mistake, this failure is from Windmills and Windmills alone.
Your going to hear about Nat Gas failure, but that wouldn't happen if all the power didn't have to come from Nat Gas. Windmills make a fair amount of power out in West Texas in the spring through the fall, but even freeze up in the desert in winter. The problem this time is the whole state froze and needed more power than the gas plants could deliver on their own.
Another thing a little off topic,...Nat gas electricity cost about 10 cents a kw and windmills cost about 30-40 cents a kw and it's subsidized. A windmill needs about $300,000 of maintenance a year per windmill. That's why many places have blades not spinning while others do. Bearings, blades, and transmissions don't last in the dirt and sand. What the hell are we doing?
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The Governor’s wheel chair wheel bearings froze up because he was too cheap to winterize them.
How much money could have gone for those upgrades if they hadn’t been Green virtue signaling by shutting down coal plants and installing wind farms that didn’t produce much during the event?
I have a screencap from ERCOT’s real time status page from I think Wednesday AM showing them getting 0.65 GW from wind. This on an installed nominal capacity in the range 25-31 GW of windmills, depending on whose numbers you’re looking at. The were getting about 4 GW the first bad day. It’s still atrocious for the amount of installed capacity.
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