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Old 02-22-2021, 04:59 PM   #212
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Originally Posted by DiracSpike View Post
Wind and solar couldn't even pull their weight as ~25% of Texas' grid when they were needed the most.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1362262846780805126
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.
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