Quote Originally Posted by htownhunter View Post
Failures in natural gas, coal and nuclear energy systems were responsible for nearly twice as many outages as frozen wind turbines and solar panels, the ERCOT said in a press conference Tuesday. Failures to winterize gas gathering points, power plants play a bigger role. So called “green energy” failures are conservatives favorite hobby horse and a red herring.
It's not quite twice as many but I do totally agree about your "green energy" statement & using it as a red herring. Totally.

Of the 43,000MW (43Gigawatts) about 26500MW (26.5Gigawatts) was thermal and the other 17,000MW (17Gigawatts) was wind and solar power.

Thermal power are traditional elements like coal, steam, nuclear combustion... used to convert "heat" (usually in the form of steam ultimately) into electricity by spinning turbines that move a conductive coil wire inside magnetic field to produce current. So, yes, it was a lot of thermal loss but not really twice, it's closer to 1:1 or just a bit over.

Almost out of the woods people. Very soon! By Sat this is a memory for sure... if not before then. Sat at the latest. Energy production is already coming back up too.