I had to make sure you're not trolling, I'm not going to waste my time on a troll.
If we weren't wasting money on windmills and over-regulating our coal & gas plants we wouldn't be in this situation. We were expecting to have 25-48% of wind during this time, it's at 11%. Natural gas was already limited, it shouldn't be. More pipelines.
Our coal plants weren't at max capacity, they've gotten the go ahead to increase, they were limited because of carbon emissions.
We'd only have one problem to solve if it weren't for green shit, local infrastructure.
If they weren't over-regulated in the first place they probably would have had money to maintain and winterize them beforehand.
First, this is a once in a 100 years event. You can not expect them to pay for the engineering and extra equipment in anticipation of that kind of event
Power usage in some areas is up over 500%. Should they have built 5X more power generating stations?
Other states have this problem once in awhile. They get around it because they share electricity with other states.
If TX had this arrangement, there would be no electrical problems at all.
If you want to blame someone, blame whoever made that decision
Other states have this problem once in awhile. They get around it because they share electricity with other states.
If TX had this arrangement, there would be no electrical problems at all.
This is a leftist talking point. They want to further combine the grids further for political reasons. We already do have 5 connections to other grids, but the problem is those grids don't have that much surplus to begin with.
Yes things were bound to fail somewhat, but things were royally fucked in this case because of mismanagement, dep on wind, and artificial limiting under the guise of "green".
No, frozen wind turbines aren’t the main culprit for Texas’ power outages
16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, were offline. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy.
I had to make sure you're not trolling, I'm not going to waste my time on a troll.
If we weren't wasting money on windmills and over-regulating our coal & gas plants we wouldn't be in this situation. We were expecting to have 25-48% of wind during this time, it's at 11%. Natural gas was already limited, it shouldn't be. More pipelines.
Our coal plants weren't at max capacity, they've gotten the go ahead to increase, they were limited because of carbon emissions.
We'd only have one problem to solve if it weren't for green shit, local infrastructure.
If they weren't over-regulated in the first place they probably would have had money to maintain and winterize them beforehand.
First, this is a once in a 100 years event. You can not expect them to pay for the engineering and extra equipment in anticipation of that kind of event
Power usage in some areas is up over 500%. Should they have built 5X more power generating stations?
Other states have this problem once in awhile. They get around it because they share electricity with other states.
If TX had this arrangement, there would be no electrical problems at all.
If you want to blame someone, blame whoever made that decision
This is a leftist talking point. They want to further combine the grids further for political reasons. We already do have 5 connections to other grids, but the problem is those grids don't have that much surplus to begin with.
Yes things were bound to fail somewhat, but things were royally fucked in this case because of mismanagement, dep on wind, and artificial limiting under the guise of "green".
this is too bizarre
you are saying that creating a weak power infrastructure is leftist
but improving the resilience of the power infrastructure is leftist
that's not what I'm saying at all retard.
I'm saying due to regulations and focus on renewables our the infrastructure that matters in these scenarios has been neglected.
you're saying oh just borrow from the rest of the grid, acting like they don't have their own problems and they have all the energy in the world.
No, frozen wind turbines aren’t the main culprit for Texas’ power outages
16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, were offline. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/