excalibur
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Yes, people in Texas can thank natural gas and nuclear.
Renewables are only an addition, and an expensive one at that.
ERCOT #TexasGrid Sunday Evening Update: Renewable outages spike as #naturalgas system keeps Texans safe and warm
Because I know #wind and #solar advocates and their media cheerleaders will misreport this as a matter of course, I will focus on the orange line on the “Generation Outages” chart on the left below.
That line shows the rapid spike in wind and solar outages that took place as the winter storm blew into Texas on January 23/24. The light blue line above it shows dispatchable outages, which have remained static and actually fallen slightly during the course of the storm.
The contrast is stark and highly predictable: The one predictable aspect of wind and solar is that they will fail you when they are needed the most, i.e., during major weather events.
As I’ve pointed out in my two previous updates on this storm. Wind has actually done fairly well despite the outages, providing between 10%-15% of total generation online throughout the storm.
But solar has failed miserably, providing almost no generation on Saturday and pitching in ~10% or so for several hours once the cloud cover began to clear on Sunday. Power storage, the darling of the legacy media outlets, has been a non-factor throughout.
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Renewables are only an addition, and an expensive one at that.
ERCOT #TexasGrid Sunday Evening Update: Renewable outages spike as #naturalgas system keeps Texans safe and warm
Because I know #wind and #solar advocates and their media cheerleaders will misreport this as a matter of course, I will focus on the orange line on the “Generation Outages” chart on the left below.
That line shows the rapid spike in wind and solar outages that took place as the winter storm blew into Texas on January 23/24. The light blue line above it shows dispatchable outages, which have remained static and actually fallen slightly during the course of the storm.
The contrast is stark and highly predictable: The one predictable aspect of wind and solar is that they will fail you when they are needed the most, i.e., during major weather events.
As I’ve pointed out in my two previous updates on this storm. Wind has actually done fairly well despite the outages, providing between 10%-15% of total generation online throughout the storm.
But solar has failed miserably, providing almost no generation on Saturday and pitching in ~10% or so for several hours once the cloud cover began to clear on Sunday. Power storage, the darling of the legacy media outlets, has been a non-factor throughout.
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Texas Grid Update - Sunday Evening: Natural Gas Keeps Texans Safe and Warm as Renewables Fail
ERCOT #TexasGrid Sunday Evening Update: Renewable outages spike as #naturalgas system keeps Texans safe and warm
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