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.
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.
they don't "borrow"
It all gets thrown into the nationwide grid
if TX is producing more than they need, they add electricity to the grid
if they are producing less than they need, they take power out of the grid
and you can't blame the failure on democrats
blame it on ERCOT
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/