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Originally Posted by raysachs
I’m not gonna take this far at the risk of getting political, but the problem with the Texas power grid are NOT primarily about wind or solar energy, which account for about 15% of the state’s power. There’s a long history behind Texas’s low energy prices, deregulation, and the reliability tradeoffs that come with them. Ordinarily it works pretty well, but it’s not well setup for dealing with these kinds of stresses. People telling you that these outages are the result of too MUCH renewable energy aren’t being honest with you.
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Thanks for this. This is correct. Generation of all types were failing, and natural gas accounts for a significant portion of that generation, dwarfing wind's. Natural gas wells produce water as a byproduct, and water is also required to keep them running. A deep freeze like this incapacitates not just wind turbines, but also natural gas, which is the primary form of generation.