Is this supposed to be some sort of brutal takedown? 13% of Texas' (very isolated and not connected to the national grid by choice) grid is powered by "green energy".
Shutting down nuclear and coal plants because they didn't winterize coolant systems to save money falls into the other 87%.
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Is this supposed to be some sort of brutal takedown? 13% of Texas' (very isolated and not connected to the national grid by choice) grid is powered by "green energy".
Shutting down nuclear and coal plants because they didn't winterize coolant systems to save money falls into the other 87%.
Conservatives are promoting an story that wind power is the reason for the power shut down and thus, renewables don't work.
While I am not the poster, its not supposed to be a brutal take down, just the Biden administration standing up for facts in regards to an online discussion about how renewables supposedly failed, nothing more to read into it. Proof in the pudding, the "riight" by the twitter account who when confronted with the facts, chooses to still not believe.
Not everything is a "gotcha" or a "brutal take down"
Conservatives are promoting an story that wind power is the reason for the power shut down and thus, renewables don't work.
While I am not the poster, its not supposed to be a brutal take down, just the Biden administration standing up for facts in regards to an online discussion about how renewables supposedly failed, nothing more to read into it. Proof in the pudding, the "riight" by the twitter account who when confronted with the facts, chooses to still not believe.
Not everything is a "gotcha" or a "brutal take down"
I mean, it was posted by Yoho, who I can guarantee you 100% agrees with the "Riiiight" guy, and was not posted with the intent to mock the sub-tweeter.
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I mean, it was posted by Yoho, who I can guarantee you 100% agrees with the "Riiiight" guy, and was not posted with the intent to mock the sub-tweeter.
Oh my bad then, I don't know the context of the poster history. I guess that makes my original response to you as a kind of funny mockery of Yoho if what you say is true
I think I saw a tweet the other day that at one point something like 24GW of Gas supply was out of service from the cold conditions. That's massive.
From the data I saw which was specific to Feb 15th:
- Gas averaged about 62% of dependable supply (right about the 24 GW you quoted).
- Coal was 63%
- Biomass 44%
- Nuclear 80%
- Hydro 29%
- Wind 11%
- Solar 16%
Everything failed in some sense. Nuclear obviously the best!
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So, note that I am talking out of my @ss before you read this next statement ...
But I thought as short as 10 years ago about 50% of our power came from BC, when they had peak supply with Hydro, and then vice versa, 50% of BC power came from AB 'dirty' coal when they had low supply with Hydro.
Is this approx true, and if so, how could we be considered as poorly connected as Texas with so much power transfer between AB and BC?
Further proof I'm not blowing smoke up your arse ;-)
But I thought as short as 10 years ago about 50% of our power came from BC, when they had peak supply with Hydro, and then vice versa, 50% of BC power came from AB 'dirty' coal when they had low supply with Hydro.
Alberta only has a few small connections, almost all power is self-generated:
Being tied to a larger grid is probably over-rated, Texas by itself has a grid comparable in size to many countries. Plus even if tied, it's unlikely that it would have 20, 30 GW of interconnects or that its neighbors would actually have that much surplus, especially with correlated weather. California in August had issues with imports because its neighbors all had the same problems with high demand from heat.
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Texas has a handful (I think 5) of DC tie lines that connect to other jurisdictions.
This is similar to Alberta with our three interties.
It is true that both Alberta and Texas are poorly connected to their neighbors relative to the average internal loading.
i think you might be mistaken.
The north panhandle has an interconnect.. and some of western texas. but most of texas is it's own grid-- unconnected to the two major grids.
apparently Texas went solo because power companies wanted to avoid the costs (and federal regulation) of compliance associate with tying into one of the national grids
one commentatiator mentioned this situation was similar to the regulatory environment pursued by Enron
