Not sure where the 40% energy loss caused by 15% of the grid which is solar/wind comes from in your link. I would love to rub these facts in the face of the green energy nuts, but want to have 100% accuracy before doing so.
It appears that the 16,500 MW is provided by wind/solar (out of the 40,000MW still to come back online) is still offline.
To be accurate, the 2/18 ERCOT news release says the following: "While there is no additional load shed occurring at this time, a little over 40,000 MW of generation remains on forced outage due to this winter weather event. Of that, 23,500 MW is thermal generation and the rest is wind and solar. It is possible that some level of rotating outages may be needed over the next couple of days to keep the grid stable."
Not sure where the 40% energy loss caused by 15% of the grid which is solar/wind comes from in your link. I would love to rub these facts in the face of the green energy nuts, but want to have 100% accuracy before doing so.
It appears that the 16,500 MW is provided by wind/solar (out of the 40,000MW still to come back online) is still offline.
To be accurate, the 2/18 ERCOT news release says the following: "While there is no additional load shed occurring at this time, a little over 40,000 MW of generation remains on forced outage due to this winter weather event. Of that, 23,500 MW is thermal generation and the rest is wind and solar. It is possible that some level of rotating outages may be needed over the next couple of days to keep the grid stable."
I think it's that wind just failed at a higher rate compared to thermal.
40,000 MW generation is out and 40% of that is wind/solar when they are typically responsible for 21% of total electricity generated.
Pg 8. of this report supports your ~21% for those curious
http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/197391/2019_ERCOT_State_of_the_Grid_Report.pdf