Texas conservatives trying to blame green energy for the states power failures

[Proud liberal 80]

Yeah because the state of Texas is well known for its green energy

[Ohiogal]

1. My sister wrote me about this today.

She wanted to know if I heard that power was out all over Texas because their wind turbines all froze.

[Proud liberal 80]

3. Wonder why countries like Germany don't have this problem then

My guess is Texas did their windmills on the cheap and really didn’t care about them since they are really about oil and gas....

[edhopper]

6. There is a right wing story

making the rounds that Germany is abandoning renewables for coal because of the winter.

[exboyfil]

2. The thing about it is a very infrequent event

And unlike Fukushima and Chernobyl, it is a temporary disruption.

[lapfog_1]

4. always a grain of truth BUT

ERCOT, which serves 90% of the state’s load has been bracing for the extraordinary measure, warning for days that an expected “Arctic outbreak” could set a new all-time winter peak demand record. The previous winter peak-demand record—of 65,915 MW, set on Jan. 17, 2018, between 7 and 8 a.m.—was broken on Sunday, Feb. 14, between 6 and 7 p.m., reaching 69,150 MW.

ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness in a statement on Sunday morning noted the region was already grappling with higher-than-normal generation outages due to “frozen wind turbines and limited natural gas supplies available to generating units.”

But after the Feb. 14, 7 p.m. peak, beginning around 11 p.m., “multiple generating units began tripping offline in somewhat rapid progression due to the severe cold weather,” ERCOT Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin told reporters on Monday morning. “As a result of this decreasing supply and continued high demand, we began to see diminishing reserves.”

https://www.powermag.com/ercot-sheds-load-as-extreme-cold-forces-generators-offline-miso-spp-brace-for-worsening-system-conditions/

limited supply of natural gas
frozen wind turbines
extreme demand
and almost NO grid tie to import electricity from other regions

(because TEXAS didn't want to be tangled up with federal electric grid!)

It's this last point that is the fatal flaw in their system

[2naSalit]

7. +1

[Mariana]

5. And like pretty much everything else Texas Conservative say, it's a lie.

Wind generation has been exceeding forecasts during this crisis.