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Not sure I take the RRC's word for things. Of the new winterization standards, gas suppliers did not have requirements to do anything. From [0] >Analyses after
by fbdab103 3y ago
Not sure I take the RRC's word for things. Of the new winterization standards, gas suppliers did not have requirements to do anything. From [0]
>Analyses after Uri revealed that a lack of winterization in the electric and gas sectors was a critical cause of systemwide failure. The Texas legislature enacted new winterization requirements for electricity generators. But it did not do the same for natural gas producers, which provide fuel to about 40% of Texas power plants and weren’t able to deliver during the storm.
> Since then, Texas saw significant drops in natural gas production during winter cold snaps in January and February 2022. As happened during Uri, production at many gas wells was halted because water and other liquids that come to the surface with the natural gas froze when they hit a frozen wellhead, creating an ice dam and stopping the flow of gas into pipelines.
>...(jumping to 2022 Christmas cold snap)
>Additionally, Texas natural gas production is estimated to have fallen by almost 20 percent on Dec. 23 from the week before, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
[0] https://theconversation.com/two-years-after-its-historic-deep-freeze-texas-is-increasingly-vulnerable-to-cold-snaps-and-there-are-more-solutions-than-just-building-power-plants-198494 https://theconversation.com/two-years-after-its-historic-dee...