I can't seem to find any straight answers on total capacity by power generation type. Does someone have a link to that?
From what I can find, the nominal amount of power loss is caused by natural gas/coal during this event.
linkHowever, the fact that no one is showing percentage failures of total capacity by type makes my propaganda bell go off. For instance in the above link, this part of the article makes it seem like coal and gas are the issue:
Quote:
During a news conference Tuesday, representatives from ERCOT said there were 45,000 megawatts offline. Of that, 15,000 megawatts were wind and 30,000 were gas and coal.
I continue to see that wind/renewables are ~23% of the supply with nat gas/coal in the 58% range. Wouldn't that ratio mean that nat gas/coal outperformed wind on a comparative basis by a large margin?
Further, it says later in the article:
Quote:
Rai said there are times of the year when wind is an extremely important energy source for Texas, powering half of the state's electricity supply.
This week, operators planned for much less wind capacity, in the range of 6,000 megawatts, Cohan said.
Why would you build such a large portion of your power supply with a high chance of being unavailable during the second largest energy consumption season? I could understand 10% of total capacity, but 20%+?