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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Well, similar to your example, one of two reactors at a nuclear power facility automatically shut down on a safety trip due to not being built to withstand cold weather. And the gas is easy to keep flowing if you have crews ready to do that type of thing. I did that job as a teenager. So again, poor cold weather planning. And from what it sounds like just poor regulations all around.
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Exactly. A once in a generation cold snap exposed some extreme temperature resiliency problems that are not due to renewables, and are not solvable via renewables. It's a straw man argument.
"Oh, your grid isn't resistant to a severe cold snap. You should build some wind farms!"
Said no on ever