[viraptor]

It's an interesting case of one area trying to stay independent and deregulated, then failing in basic areas like low costs, and maintenance, leading to serious issues in recent winters. With certain media trying to turn the management failures into an anti-wind campaign thus not making things better.

Honestly it's an interesting trainwreck to observe from far away. Shame that it affects real people locally.

In case you're not familiar with Ercot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_o...

[philshem]

Direct link to the 2021 Texas power crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

[briandear]

Those failures didn’t happen until they started shifting to so called “green” energy. And compared to California’s power woes, Texas is a model of efficiency.

With natural gas and nuclear, there would never be a power shortage in Texas. But for some reason people are obsessed with ugly, bird killing windmills and giant solar farms.

[viraptor]

Here's a fun and well sourced video about the source of failures: https://youtu.be/PmYvkCXXI4E

Or if you don't like fun: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/17/texas-energy...

> These failing sources largely included nuclear plants, coal plants and thermal energy generators. Frozen wind turbines were a factor, too, but Woodfin said wind shutdowns accounted for less than 13% of the outages.

That's ERCOT Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin. So no, it definitely would've happened with just gas and nuclear.

[elbelcho]

That's factually incorrect. They've been suffering severe power outages due to poor maintenance and planning as far back as at least 2011 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/texas-power-...