Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by hokkos on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:05PM
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At the worst wind only provided 0.7GW on 30GW installed, with capacity they count on during winter peaking events for wind of 6.2GW it only 11%.
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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by masklinn on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:04AM
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That’s a cherrypicked low point, which is unsurprising given wind is not a permanent energy source. 30GW nameplate capacity is nowhere near the production you’d expect of wind (hell even nukes are not expected to come close to 100%).
Texas’ electric mix is 75% thermal, and that’s what shat the bed, at peak 34GWe of thermal was offline. Even if wind actually accounted for 6GW missing dieting the entire event it would have accounted for a small minority of the missing production.
And more specifically Texas gas is 66% of expected winter capacity. That’s also where most of the outages are.