[FreedomPoster]

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.

[JCL3]

Here’s the posted “real-time” link.
http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html

[chuckles]

The killing part of this boondoggle is we will probably be getting billions more subsidies to build more windmills to stop this from ever happening again./sarc

I can just envision thousands more windmills just bought and paid for as part of a $100 TRILLION dollar Green New Deal all froze up and not spinning in West Texas. People also forget that a windmill can be perfectly able to spin, but ice on the blades makes them un aerodynamic and unable to spin to catch the wind.

They had helicopters spraying deicing compound on the blades trying to get them to spin. How much fuel does a helicopter use in a 12 hour day times hundreds of windmills? Why can't people just take no for an answer?