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While winterization did effect the generation of renewables during the outage, a larger issue was just.. a lack of wind. Thermal generation was and is the lead
by Aloha 4y ago
While winterization did effect the generation of renewables during the outage, a larger issue was just.. a lack of wind.
Thermal generation was and is the leading cause of the outage - namely a lack of gas supply which offlined much of the states thermal generation.
- pfdietz 4y agoAnd during that big winter storm outage, the sudden loss of a nuclear power plant's output.
- galangalalgol 4y agoI wasn't aware the nuke plant went down, why did that happen? My understanding wasn't that our gas supply wasn't winterized, but that with residential heating usage, the pressure in the lines was too low to safely turn on the auxiliary powerplants. Apparently it is bad if instead of leaking tiny bits of gas out of the pipes, you start leaking tiny bits of air in...
- pfdietz 4y agohttps://atomicinsights.com/south-texas-project-unit-1-tripped-at-0537-on-feb-15-2021/ https://atomicinsights.com/south-texas-project-unit-1-trippe... Failure of feedwater supply attributed to cold-related failure of sensors.
- shagie 4y agohttps://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004840920/the-disconnect-power-politics-and-the-texas-blackout https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004840920/the-disconnect-power... - the episode "The Fixes" about 24:00 in gets into the specifics of the natural gas issues. Once the rolling blackouts started, the rolling blackouts shut off the gas wells as the wells weren't on critical circuits... and even if they were winterized with heaters, they wouldn't be able to heat as there was no power.