Honestly it's an interesting trainwreck to observe from far away. Shame that it affects real people locally.
In case you're not familiar with Ercot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_o...
Honestly it's an interesting trainwreck to observe from far away. Shame that it affects real people locally.
In case you're not familiar with Ercot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_o...
With natural gas and nuclear, there would never be a power shortage in Texas. But for some reason people are obsessed with ugly, bird killing windmills and giant solar farms.
Or if you don't like fun: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/17/texas-energy...
> These failing sources largely included nuclear plants, coal plants and thermal energy generators. Frozen wind turbines were a factor, too, but Woodfin said wind shutdowns accounted for less than 13% of the outages.
That's ERCOT Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin. So no, it definitely would've happened with just gas and nuclear.