26GW is the thermal capacity that the market would like have had, IF there had been sufficient natural gas. [1] And that ERCOT's extreme plan (worst case scena

26GW is the thermal capacity that the market would like have had, IF there had been sufficient natural gas. [1] And that ERCOT's extreme plan (worst case scenario) had only anticipating loosing [2] 14GW of 'thermal' (i.e. mostly natural-gas) capacity. So 'lost capacity' was 2x the worst case anticipated. Estimates are that supply was about 20GW below peek demand.[3] Sources: MIT trained Princeton Professor who was tweeting real time data from ERCOT and is one of the nations leading researchers on energy systems, grids, and reliability. I highly recommend all of these threads: [1] https://twitter.com/jessejenkins/status/1361348544154664961 https://twitter.com/jessejenkins/status/1361348544154664961 [2] https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1362062037275279363 https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1362062037275279363 [3] https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1362063819858714633 https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1362063819858714633