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Re:Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat by newguy1234 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:54PM (#20698749)
The solution is to simply build more natural gas peaker plants, not solar. If you read the article it pretty much shows that Texas overinvested in wind power and it just so happened that during this period of time the wind wasn't as strong. Also for Texas having an energy crisis like this is unacceptable because Texas is sitting on the largest natural gas fields in the country.
Re:Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat by PhantomGremlin on Thursday August 15, 2019 @01:15AM (#20702757)
Texas is sitting on the largest natural gas fields in the country

These things take time to sort themselves out. E.g. right now Texas is flaring a lot of natural gas (which they get as a byproduct of oil production).

Looked at dispassionately it seems insane.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Gas-Flaring-Running-...