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by chrisco255
1666 days ago
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https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/14/historic-win... Over half the turbines were completely frozen. Wind typically accounts for ~22% of Texas power supply. Meanwhile, there was a record high spike (nearly double normal loads) in demand for electricity. If not for natural gas, the blackouts would have been even worse, because at least they were able to be ramped up and provide some power via rolling blackouts. |
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Natural Gas, Coal, and Nuclear accounted for over 80% of the lost generation. Most of that was gas.
See page 16 here: https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2021/04/28/ERCOT_Winter_Sto...
Same thing happened in both 2011 and 1989… NatGas was not there when the state needed it most.