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by adamcstephens 1948 days ago
A nuclear plant was also taken offline due to the cold.
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Nuclear was outputting about 75% of its capacity, which was pretty good performance compared to the other sources. At that rate, if we'd had 25 GW of additional nuclear capacity instead of 25 GW of wind capacity, we would have had another 15 GW of power available during the cold night hours, when wind was outputting only 3.5 GW of its 25 GW capacity.
Well all sorts of things were taken offline due to the cold—anything can be made to work properly in cold weather.
Right. Clearly much of Texas was built with “it’ll never be below freezing for multiple days in a row”, which unfortunately has caused for an even greater disaster.