{"id":296870,"date":"2024-01-18T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=296870"},"modified":"2024-01-18T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:49:15","slug":"the-texas-power-grid-is-on-the-verge-of-another-fatal-collapse-green-energy-is-absent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=296870","title":{"rendered":"The Texas power grid is on the verge of another fatal collapse. Green energy is absent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The situation on the Texas power grid this week is going to be a crucial test not just for the grid\u2019s managers at ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), but also for natural gas suppliers and generators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As weather conditions continued to evolve and deteriorate across the state,\u00a0ERCOT has issued a conservation request<\/a>\u00a0to business and private customers to be in effect from 6am to 10am CST, a time of peak power demand and low renewable production. The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ERCOT\u2019s request blamed the latest failure of the state\u2019s huge wind industry on \u201cunseasonably low wind\u201d conditions, but the reality that the wind tends to die down as temperatures drop is one of the most open secrets in the history of weather. ERCOT officials cannot control weather conditions, obviously, but they can anticipate they will get a lot less wind contribution than their models predict whenever the weather is not ideal. That\u2019s just a given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equally obvious is the fact that they will get zero generation from the state\u2019s ballyhooed solar farms when the sun isn\u2019t shining, and ERCOT\u2019s managers should have learned last summer that the battery storage facilities<\/a> will also fail to deliver much whenever the weather is too hot or, as it is this week, too cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state\u2019s generation mix taken from ERCOT\u2019s app at 7:19am. Monday tells that story pretty clearly. What we see is 0 per cent contribution from solar, 0.8 per cent from power storage, and just 6.8 per cent from wind. Meanwhile, the \u201cfossil fuels\u201d so detested by the state\u2019s legacy media sites were kicking in 84.9 per cent of total generation, with a whopping 67.2 per cent coming from the state\u2019s natural gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, as is always the case on the Texas grid despite all the renewables-boosting propaganda from the state and national media, the situation for consumers will come down to whether natural gas producers can keep their wells pumping, natural gas pipeline companies can keep the gas flowing through their pipelines, and natural gas power generators can prevent their plants from freezing up.\u00a0A lot of that failed to happen during Winter Storm Uri<\/a>\u00a0in February, 2021, and massive blackouts lasting for days at a time resulted in the deaths of 300 or more of my fellow Texans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The situation on the Texas power grid this week is going to be a crucial test not just for the grid\u2019s managers at ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), but also for natural gas suppliers and generators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":296874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The situation on the Texas power grid this week is going to be a crucial test not just for the grid\u2019s managers at ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), but also for natural gas suppliers and generators.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691826369,691826368,691819094,691826370,691822157],"class_list":{"0":"post-296870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-battery-storage-facilities","9":"tag-ercot-electric-reliability-council-of-texas","10":"tag-renewable-green-energy","11":"tag-renewables-boosting-propaganda","12":"tag-texas-grid","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0merlin_183939048_f5afc996-47a3-41fc-a339-897b7db0c7e5-superJumbo.webp?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1fee","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":271233,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271233","url_meta":{"origin":296870,"position":0},"title":"More Media Lies About the Texas Electricity Grid","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Inflated prices and power failures could have occurred without green energy.","rel":"","context":"In \"Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)\"","block_context":{"text":"Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=electric-reliability-council-of-texas-ercot"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Frozen-Power-Grid.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Frozen-Power-Grid.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Frozen-Power-Grid.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Frozen-Power-Grid.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Frozen-Power-Grid.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":200814,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=200814","url_meta":{"origin":296870,"position":1},"title":"Blackouts\u2026 Because Climate Change! 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