Yup. Major mis-information campeign. There was and still is issues with fossil fuels, but the large issue was wind and solar being non-existant.
On a typical day 20% or more of the grid is fed by Wind and Solar.
Monday is was zero and Tuesday lower than 10%.
Natural gas also had a availability issue since homes were heating with natural gas, so even though there are fast deployment natural gas generation some of it didn't litterally have fuel to run. Couple that with one of our 4 nuke reactors going off line because of a sensor failure and here we are.
Can you blame wind and solar, well yes. There is 300 billion that was invested in them. A smart bet would have been to build redundancy and investing in fossil fuels as well but this was taboo. I don't object to hybrid strategy, but this mass deployment without backup was just a bad idea.
Yup. Major mis-information campeign. There was and still is issues with fossil fuels, but the large issue was wind and solar being non-existant.
On a typical day 20% or more of the grid is fed by Wind and Solar. Monday is was zero and Tuesday lower than 10%.
Natural gas also had a availability issue since homes were heating with natural gas, so even though there are fast deployment natural gas generation some of it didn't litterally have fuel to run. Couple that with one of our 4 nuke reactors going off line because of a sensor failure and here we are.
Can you blame wind and solar, well yes. There is 300 billion that was invested in them. A smart bet would have been to build redundancy and investing in fossil fuels as well but this was taboo. I don't object to hybrid strategy, but this mass deployment without backup was just a bad idea.