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>it is quite hard to keep a grid stable with such high penetration of renewables Perhaps worth pointing out the recent Texan outages were caused by gas freezin
by s_dev 5y ago
>it is quite hard to keep a grid stable with such high penetration of renewables
Perhaps worth pointing out the recent Texan outages were caused by gas freezing in the lines. An extreme weather event derived from climate change. So it's literally the fossil fuels causing the instability we've come to associate with the Texas power grid.
Then the governor came out blaming renewables.
- roenxi 5y agoI remain patient in waiting for the actual engineering report on the subject. I heard a rumour that that the reason wind was being given a free pass was because it was assumed that all wind generation would fail in an emergency - as it did - and therefore emergency planning was on the basis of no wind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis shows suspiciously low output by renewable sources. It isn't showing coal and nuclear being effortlessly surpassed by renewables (which is what I'd expect form the aggregate EIA stats)