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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
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But really neither could natural gas. They have over 75 GW of installed capacity of it yet when the problem occurred you can see it producing roughly half that.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-...-idUSL1N2KN1W5
46,000 MW was forced offline, 28,000 MW of that was thermal because of things like pipes were freezing. It's almost like being told that your infrastructure isn't capable of operating in cold weather and needs to be upgraded, but instead doing nothing and then having cold weather resulted in problems.