They did fail in some regards, but it was because they weren’t winterized/poor planning, however, neither failed as catastrophically as wind turbines, so still better outcome than if everything was reliant on wind & solar.
Maybe wind, but not solar. If I had solar panels on my roof, I would still have had energy for the week instead of being reliant upon the power grid.
And for all those saying "but solar panels don't work in the snow"... even though it was snowing, the skies were clear most of the time and there was plenty of sunlight. As far as the snow covering the solar panels, it would be far easier for me to just climb on the roof and scrape down the snow from the panels in the morning than sit around waiting for the power grid to get its shit together or driving down to the gas station to fill containers for the generator. Not to mention that there would be sufficient amount stored in the battery reserves to at least power some essentials for a little bit instead of it being completely dark and cold.
This is distributed solar, which is excellent and pretty much the only way to make it feasible in the forseeable future (competes with retail rates). Also... Solar panels on a home roof are an individual choice. The problem is not all renewables in all forms. The problem is forcing ineffective non-solutions on the masses for political reasons.
They did fail in some regards, but it was because they weren’t winterized/poor planning, however, neither failed as catastrophically as wind turbines, so still better outcome than if everything was reliant on wind & solar.
Maybe wind, but not solar. If I had solar panels on my roof, I would still have had energy for the week instead of being reliant upon the power grid.
And for all those saying "but solar panels don't work in the snow"... even though it was snowing, the skies were clear most of the time and there was plenty of sunlight. As far as the snow covering the solar panels, it would be far easier for me to just climb on the roof and scrape down the snow from the panels in the morning than sit around waiting for the power grid to get its shit together or driving down to the gas station to fill containers for the generator. Not to mention that there would be sufficient amount stored in the battery reserves to at least power some essentials for a little bit instead of it being completely dark and cold.
This is distributed solar, which is excellent and pretty much the only way to make it feasible in the forseeable future (competes with retail rates). Also... Solar panels on a home roof are an individual choice. The problem is not all renewables in all forms. The problem is forcing ineffective non-solutions on the masses for political reasons.