• @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

    I’ll be honest, this summer hasn’t had any rolling blackouts in North Texas. Oh, I bet it has nothing to do with the expanded wind/solar/battery farms. Can’t be the renewables!

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      12 months ago

      In fairness, I don’t think you guys got hit by the hurricane quite as hard as we did.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        I’m looking at it from ercot not having enough energy for demand like the last few years. Obviously, a hurricane will take down service.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          12 months ago

          In the case of the '18 February snap-freeze, the problem was gas plant lines freezing over so they couldn’t run their generators as demand peaked.

          Ironically, that sky-high crisis pricing causes green energy investment to surge, as wind and solar got to ride the $3000 Mwh rates during the peak of summer while gas companies had to spend a small fortune retrofitting all their lines.