Then have been told to winterize their pipelines for a decade.

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Assuming data is accurate. if your energy needs is mainly dependent on wind turbines, and you chose not to maintain, improve or invest in its operations, you can’t blame the turbines. Blame the administration.

It’s like being a taxi driver having a new car. Then refusing to change oil, putting air in tire or topping of fluids. Then blame the car when it breaks down.

Well, we can believe you and zerohedge, or we can believe the governor and utility companies. Which group is the expert?

what about the windmills?

did windmill cause natural gas, coal, and nuclear plants to shutdown?

The failure was in generation across the board due to Texas’ failure to winterize.

And as I said before, I am okay with cutting them some slack due to the freak nature of the storm. They need to learn from this though.

but green energy bad look at this picture.

Yep. Libs got to ERCOT!

Dan Woodfin, senior director at ERCOT.

It appears that a lot of the generation that has gone offline today has been primarily due to the issues on the natural gas system.

Here’s the annual forecast from ERCOT with that 7% figure for winter wind turbine use.

http://www.ercot.com/news/releases/show/216844

Planned winter wind capacity: 3,792 MW
Anticipated peak winter demand: 57,699 MW
That’s 6.5%, rounded up to 7%. Even better, ERCOT forecasted only using 928 MW of wind power during the winter.

The argument is 16,000 MW of “offline” winter wind turbine power (which is four times more than what they were relying on it to contribute) is at fault? While the 30,0000 MW lost primarily from natural gas wasn’t the issue? Hilarious.

not directly. but if the focus was on reliable clean energy vs lefty lulu playtoy energy, there would likely be no issues with gas

and people wouldnt have died.

typical ultimate result of leftist policies. death

This is false.
the issue with gas was pipeline freezing how is that related to wind.

its almost like you have no idea what your talking about.
just spouting talking points.

I am quite skeptical of that article and graph. A simple Google search shows scores and scores of articles (including from local Texas newspapers) that say the opposite

I think somebody created false news, and somebody else brought it here: not for the truth, but for the continuance of the partisan narrative.

And to blame it on Biden? Absolutey absurd

money spent on that infrastructure vs stupid carbon heavy windmills would have improved it

this is false, Taxes had ample money to upgrade their infrastructure they chose not too.

maybe it’s not cold enough. prob need more windmills id say

climate emergency, etc

And once again, don’t forget that Texas deliberately keeps its grid separate from the rest of the national grid, so they can’t bring in extra power from other states

not how it works

Its -10F here and the windmill are working fine.

Is that what you read on the internet?

Yowza. Better you than me🙃

and it was -1 F last night and guess what - the gas worked fine