Lessons learned from the Texas grid failure

[azjohn]

Thought I would share a video from a youtube page I have recently discovered

 

[firsttruck]

It is good that this promotes home solar but first thing he does is perpetuates false info.

Storm was not once in lifetime. There were similar storms in 1989, 2011 with the same failures. The Texas government, energy grid operation, natural gas pipelines, and thermal power plants (coal, gas, nuclear) were warned and told what they needed to do.
10 years and nothing done.
Nothing was done because their immediate profits are much more important.

Yes, this time was a little colder but they never did anything after the failures of 2011.
If you don't make changes you get same failure results.
They were warned. So no there should be no surprise.
But there sure a lot of mis-directed blame tor renewable energy even though the grid operator had pre-planned and knew there would be little no solar & wind those days (clouds & no wind).
The problem was the thermal power plants knew the weather forecast but still PROMISED they would be available during the peak periods and instead they were no shows.

If this is ever really investigated it is likely some natural gas pipeline & power plants had lied about doing winterization at all.

How many 10s billions were spent on those nuclear plants??

10s of billions and still fails when needed most!!!!

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Nuclear is also much more expensive, the WNISR report said. The cost of generating solar power ranges from $36 to $44 per megawatt hour (MWh), the WNISR said, while onshore wind power comes in at $29–$56 per MWh. Nuclear energy costs between $112 and $189.23 sep. 2019

Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report
By Marton Dunai, Geert De Clercq
September 23, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSKBN1W909J

 

[Owner13669]

Deregulation and Republican ideology means it will happen again, too.

 

[Luke42]

Deregulation and Republican ideology means it will happen again, too.

That's what the people of Texas voted for.

They can change it, if they want to. Or they can keep it the way it is, if they prefer.

I'll stay here in Illinois, though. For all of our government's faults, the snow gets removed.