1. ERCOT has issued conservation warnings repeatedly over for the past several weeks.

2. Per the San Antonio Express News, the warnings are mainly the results of failures at goal- and gas-fired plants.

quote:
On Tuesday, outages at coal- and gas-fired power plants reduced supply for a second day after leaving slim margins to meet demand Tuesday evening. Wednesday is the second day in a row that ERCOT has asked Texans to reduce power use. It had issued conservation notices on four consecutive days ending Sunday due to record-breaking temperatures raising demand for energy.

But hey, never get let the facts get in the way of those anti-renewable energy arguments.

This post was edited on 8/30/23 at 2:56 pm

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by AllDayEveryDay

Nawf Tejas

Member since Jun 2015

7193 posts

Posted on 8/30/23 at 2:58 pm to WB Davis

ERCOT themselves have mentioned the lack of generation of wind capabilities for the last week.

Are you actually telling people to trust the words of a third party, and not the actual source?

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by Oilfieldbiology

Member since Nov 2016

37714 posts

Posted on 8/30/23 at 7:40 pm to WB Davis

quote:
Per the San Antonio Express News, the warnings are mainly the results of failures at goal- and gas-fired plants.

Ercot source capacity and availability chart

Eta:
shite, I did my numbers even more wrong. Solar and wind were even worse than what I said.

NatGas is at >90% summer capacity, yet you’re trying to blame this blackout on that?

Wind and solar are less than 25% of summer capacity, well below max capacity. Why the hell do we want to put such a large % of our power generation into the hands of such unreliable sources again?

This post was edited on 8/30/23 at 9:50 pm

1 ...

Report Post

O-T Lounge - Replies to Post

Return To Board

Page 1

Return To Board