Yeah? Well, let’s ask Texas how those worked out last year when they lost everything due to that ice storms??? I seem to remember all those so called life saving windmills FROZE UP and there were none of them working thus NO POWER!!!
The gas grid froze just like the industry professionals told them it would. The PUC and ERCOT both were told in 2008 and again in 2011 to winterize the power plants and the gas grid including the gas well heads they did none of that. As a result 45,000 megawatts of thermal power went off line and half the Texas gas supply froze on the first night. Wind was only forecasted to be 8,000 MW and it still made 4,000 which kept the lights on for some. Had PUC and the TXRRC listened to the professionals and hardened the gas grid those 45,000 megawatts would have been available it would have been irrelevant if wind made a single watt since those 45 gigawatts easily cover the total demand at that time. Texas has 80,000 megawatts of power capacity during the winter months losing half of it due to thermal plants dropping off line is what caused the black outs. But hey don’t let facts get in the way of a good hissy fit.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/amp/