Re:Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas
by rossdavidh on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:53PM
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I'm all in favor of wind power in Texas, and want more of it, but it did do worse than expected in Feb 2021. It's just a problem to be fixed, not a reason to drop wind power (west Texas has a lot of wind), but it did actually happen.
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Re:Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas
by abathur on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:30PM
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It's not about who is or isn't in favor of it. The narrative has been misleading here.
Check figures 2.c on page 18 and 2.o on page 34 in UT's report on this (https://energy.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/UTAustin%20%28...) for a sense of the scope of how unexpected capacity outages break down.
Yes--a lot of wind was offline. But all of the expected wind capacity could have been met and the grid would have still needed to shed quite a bit of load. In fact, all of the expected wind, solar, coal, and nuclear could have been online and the grid would have still had to shed a meaningful amount.
The scale of the natural gas outages was larger than the entire load-shed, afaict.