No, Frozen Wind Turbines Aren’t the Main Culprit for Texas’ Power Outages

An official with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said Tuesday afternoon that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, were offline. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy. Credit: Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune

Thu, 03/04/2021 - 5:00am

Frozen wind turbines in Texas caused some conservative state politicians to declare last month that the state was relying too much on renewable energy. But in reality, the wind power was expected to make up only a fraction of what the state had planned for during the winter. The Electric Reliability ...

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