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Wind and solar heavily depend on the weather. They cannot therefore produce any sufficient amounts of electricity during a blizzard. And the blame doesn’t lie
by cbmuser 6y ago
Wind and solar heavily depend on the weather. They cannot therefore produce any sufficient amounts of electricity during a blizzard.
And the blame doesn’t lie on natural gas but on the idea of shutting down baseload-capable sources like nuclear in favor of renewables.
- jussij 6y agoExcept it was natural gas generators that caused the system to fail: As Princeton engineering professor Jesse Jenkins points out, the real primary culprit was the mass failure of nuclear, coal, and natural gas (or "thermal") power plants. At the peak of the blackout something like 27,000 megawatts of thermal capacity were offline — or nearly 40 percent of Texas's entire thermal capacity. https://theweek.com/articles/967062/what-texas-blackout-reveals-about-americas-climate-vulnerability https://theweek.com/articles/967062/what-texas-blackout-reve...
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoAnd the blame doesn’t lie on natural gas but on the idea of shutting down baseload-capable sources like nuclear in favor of renewables. What nuclear has been shut down in Texas?