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Originally Posted by upsscott
These were suggestions in hopes that some would actually try to conserve in a freakish heatwave. The power stayed on unlike Texas. Sometimes in our lives we are asked to sacrifice. It’s not talked about much anymore but sacrificing is an actual thing. Keeping the AC at 78 for four f@$ing hours is not a big deal.
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TX is by far the biggest wind producer in the country.
In TX wind is a smaller planned portion of the power package during the winter than it is during the summer.
During the summer when demand for electricity is high the residential gas demand is low and wind is a major contributor to the grid.
That gets inverted in winter. Most homes are heated by gas so residential demand goes up without affecting providers because electric demand goes down.
It balances out and is why wind is not needed as much.
During our freeze gas completely **** the bed and it was a domino.
Wind operators were able to spin up and make up for a chunk of the shortfall.
Even with failure of turbines wind contributed 30% of the available grid when the winter package only planned for 6%.
TX did lose 40% of it's capacity so that 30% contribution on a normal day would be more like 18%? or so. Still 3x's what it was expected to provide.
It outperformed gas.