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You keep pushing a false narrative of renewables failing in TX. Those failures are fossil fuel failures. More than half of ERCOT’s winter generating capacity,
by thelastgallon 3y ago
You keep pushing a false narrative of renewables failing in TX.
Those failures are fossil fuel failures.
More than half of ERCOT’s winter generating capacity, largely powered by natural gas, was offline due to the storm, an estimated 45 gigawatts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director at ERCOT: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/texas-grid-fail-natural-gas-coal-nuclear-18163855.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlins...
- efitz 3y agoRead my post. I never said that renewables caused the TX incident. I pointed out that outages happen, and that outages are more predictable and likely in the case of renewables. Oddly, the fact that fossil fuel sources were a precipitating cause in TX bolsters my claim, because removal of those sources from the grid supply could not be offset by renewables (some of which were also offline).