re: If Texas's central grid only relied on solar & wind energy, would anyone have electricity?

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Based on that graphic, it looks like it's still on top of all others...and always has been.

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The Y axis is the total output in the grid. Not the total output per source. Wind went from the largest producer 12 days ago to near 0 today.

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Based on that graphic, it looks like it's still on top of all others...and always has been.

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Nope

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Then again, I don't like that graph, so maybe I'm reading it incorrectly.

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You are. The color is each items contribution. If there is a sliver of color it is less of the total.

For example on Feb 8 wind was the largest supplier, on the 11th it was almost at 0.

On the 8th of Feb total supply was ~40,000 megawatt hours which was supplying all everyone needed (the storm hadn't hit yet).

On the 15th of Feb total supply was ~70,000 megawatt hours and there were a lot of people without power.

Total supply went UP 30,000 megawatt hours with Nat Gas doing most of it, but because of the crazy cold temps it wasn't enough.