Posted on Feb 19, 2021
No, The Blackouts In Texas Weren't Caused By Renewables. Here's What Really Happened
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This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared on local TV in Dallas and blamed the state's power crisis on the devastating storm that disrupted power generation and froze natural gas pipelines.
He didn't single out one power source to blame. Then he went on Fox News and gave a different story.
"Wind and solar got shut down," he said. "They were collectively more than 10% of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis."
He didn't single out one power source to blame. Then he went on Fox News and gave a different story.
"Wind and solar got shut down," he said. "They were collectively more than 10% of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis."
No, The Blackouts In Texas Weren't Caused By Renewables. Here's What Really Happened
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State of Texas
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As the percentage of intermittent (what people try to name renewable) energy increases in the electric grid, the reliability of the electric grid decreases. That’s a fact. That being said, I will wait on an official declaration from the State of Texas as to want caused the collapse of the grid, not knee-jerk responses without looking at everything. This article is misleading because they don’t give the percentages of energy plants going into the grid with an analysis of what was the straw that broke the camel’s back. In my opinion it wasn’t right of Bill Magness, the president and CEO of ERCOT to give everyone an out with an “across the board” statement. Yes, these things can, and need to be calculated. Bill Magness making a statement without this analysis is just plain wrong. He needs to resign, or possibly depending on the calculation’s, charges need to be levied against him. MHO
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People keep trying to spin the garbage “Texas problem isn’t renewable energy”. . I ask the question nobody answers. Germany is having the same problems with their wind turbines and solar power. If this isn’t the problem of renewable energy why is Germany in the same predicament? 20% of Texas energy is from renewables. Texas lost a sizable amount of that capacity, about 80%. Then demand increases so good old fossil fuels now have to pick up the slack plus the increase in demand due to cold weather. So the hole got deeper. Why did Texas go to renewable energy? We, the tax payers are giving them money to go to renewable otherwise it would be to costly!
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LTC David Brown
MSgt Steve Sweeney - internal combustion engines are supposedly a big cause of the climate warming crises, never mind we are coming out of an Ice age. I look at it like we are trading a reliable energy source for an unreliable source that is very environmentally damaging. I believe the full environmental cost of green energy isn’t fully appreciated. China produces much of the green Ener products like solar panels and wind turbines so the pollution the production of pollution from production is not here but in China.
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LTC David Brown
SFC (Join to see) - I agree. I found a study that stated 20% of Texas energy was “renewable” , predominantly wind turbines. A large portion of the turbines froze. This put the grid in a energy hole. Increased demand overloaded a system that was already starting to falter.
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LTC David Brown From what I know it is a very likely possibility, but I’ve been around the block enough times to want to see the numbers before I pile on.
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
LTC David Brown - Texas gets more energy from natural gas whose lines also froze dropping the gas pressure and causing the plants to fail. It was a lack of preparation and failure to climatizing their power plants for cold weather as they were warned to do 10 years ago. Given that wind turbines are used and work fine in many artic countries - Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, etc. The freezing issue cannot be blamed on the wind turbines themselves. They can operate in cold weather if set up to do so.
"I mean, it’s really difficult to say how much it contributes to the issue. I will say that we had generating units that every time, that had for different reasons, went offline during this event, so that 46,000 megawatt number is coal units, nuclear units, gas units, wind turbines, and their reductions, even in solar. So in different ways, but very cold weather and snow, and those kinds of things has impacted every type of generator. Yeah." - Dan Woodfin, ERCOT Executive
"I mean, it’s really difficult to say how much it contributes to the issue. I will say that we had generating units that every time, that had for different reasons, went offline during this event, so that 46,000 megawatt number is coal units, nuclear units, gas units, wind turbines, and their reductions, even in solar. So in different ways, but very cold weather and snow, and those kinds of things has impacted every type of generator. Yeah." - Dan Woodfin, ERCOT Executive
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