When you go to turn on your solar panels and wind turbine in Texas in February.
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Natural gas is the one that failed even worse than wind though. Over 50% of the power plants offline are natural gas. The pipelines are completely frozen because the retarded "muh no federal regulations" TX independent grid and RINO fuckers refused to winterize the grid. Other states have winterized pipelines and power plants and are not having this catastrophic problem like TX as a result.
I doubt the energy companies would have winterized shit if the government stayed out. This would have been a once in a lifetime scenario that would have been "completely impractical" to solve.
This. TX is not monolithic. If some plants or lines went down, power from other places could have been shunted to where it was needed. Shuttered plants down produce any power though, it turns out.
Not winterizing anything is hardy the fault of any technology. Wind turbines and gas flow fine up here in Indiana. The Texas energy companies (which are not federally regulated because they do not cross state lines) gambled over the cost of winterizing and lost the bet.
This. Failure came after resources were drained to fund Green theory.
I have no actual knowledge of this, but, I'm willing to bet big bucks that they are regulated out the ass, state lines or no.
People buy insurance for unexpected weather events.
Power companies roll the dice.
How does that make any sense?
So when the grid is 40% wind, it will be the Natural Gas that is guilty for not making up the slack during a winter storm?