Alternative energy has been a national security issue for a while.
At that time, natural gas was generating at 45 percent installed capacity and at two-thirds of its summer capacity rating; around 8,000 MW of natural gas capacity was unavailable at that time due to unplanned resource outages, close to the estimated extreme risk outage amount in ERCOT’s analysis.
About 2,300 MW of coal generation was also offline unexpectedly, along with 8,700 MW of wind and solar combined.
Despite all that, normal conditions were maintained largely due to solar production during the sunny afternoon and wind avoiding a severe dip in production, which has occurred before on hot summer days.
Green energy is literally keeping the air-conditioning on every day, while gas is having a lot of forced outages due to the harsh weather.
