It happened because they assumed that high demand and gas plants being offline, would be independent events. It turns out if it's very cold people use a lot of

It happened because they assumed that high demand and gas plants being offline, would be independent events. It turns out if it's very cold people use a lot of power to heat their homes and gas plants can develop issues due to the cold. Renewables weren't a major contributing factor in the winter outage. > I assure you it wasn’t from people running their air conditioning during a freeze. I think conversation is best if you don't assume the other person is an idiot.