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Twice as much capacity was taken offline from gas, coal and nuclear generators than from wind or solar. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-pow
by noneeeed 4y ago
Twice as much capacity was taken offline from gas, coal and nuclear generators than from wind or solar.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/ https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-st...
In all cases it was because the infrastructure wasn’t hardened for the weather. This is something that they have now been doing I believe, although how ready they are will only be found out at the next big freeze.
Wind works fine in cold weather if you build it with the weather in mind. Cold states like Michigan have wind turbines and do just fine https://empoweringmichigan.com/how-do-wind-turbines-work-in-cold-weather/ https://empoweringmichigan.com/how-do-wind-turbines-work-in-...
- ed25519FUUU 4y agoA more accurate thing to say is that turbines need to be heated in cold weather, which has an effect on their cost and operation efficiency. In places where a deep freeze is unlikely it’s usually better just to shut them down in extremely cold weather.
- noneeeed 4y agoAs do natural gas and other energy systems, as demonstrated in my point that twice as much gas/coal/nuclear generation was turned off during the Texas feeeze. All generation systems need to be adapted to the weather, Texas energy producers of all kinds decided not to, the blackouts were the result.