You have it half right. Has Texas winterized properly there would have been no outage. Do you really think New York or Illinois or Massachusetts rely completely on green energy???? Your predicate about the need to winterize is fine. Your add on implying 100% wind power as a source is sophomoric as best really infantile.
SOOO .. . which is it???? Is it a loss of 15,000 MW ...33% of the total outage of 46,000 watts ... OR .... Is it a loss of just 3,500-4,500 MW ..... Which is about 10% of the 46,000 watt loss ... OR ..... Is it 13% of the 46,000 watt loss. This is what happens when you depend on left wingnut media like Bloomberg. You get three different quotes. Give a few more days and the Media will have it that NG, nuclear, and Coal failed 100% and that 1 little Windmill in the valley powered the whole the damn State.
This goes back to the fact that the real problem in Texas was ... planning. Assigning Blame for the Blackouts in Texas | Climate Etc. (judithcurry.com)
Can you read and understand what you read? Serious question, because that's been explained already. There's literally three different days of data there. Sheesh.
No, the root of the problem is the GQP... Top Texas Republicans on the ropes after tone-deaf storm response The swaggering, Texas brand of free-market governance that’s central to the state’s political identity is taking a beating. By MARC CAPUTO 02/19/2021 04:30 AM EST The brutal winter storm that turned Texas roads to ice, burst pipes across the state and left millions of residents shivering and without power has also damaged the reputations of three of the state’s leading Republicans. Sen. Ted Cruz was discovered to have slipped off to Mexico on Wednesday night, only to announce his return when he was caught in the act. Gov. Greg Abbott came under fire over his leadership and misleading claims about the causes of the power outages. And former Gov. Rick Perry suggested Texans preferred power failures to federal regulation, a callous note in a moment of widespread suffering. "Texans are angry and they have every right to be. Failed power, water and communications surely took some lives,” JoAnn Fleming, a Texas conservative activist and executive director of a group called Grassroots America, said in a text message exchange with POLITICO. “The Texas electric grid is not secure,” said Fleming, pointing out that lawmakers “have been talking about shoring up/protecting the Texas electric grid for THREE legislative sessions (6 yrs),” but “every session special energy interests kill the bills with Republicans in charge ... Our politicians spend too much time listening to monied lobbyists & political consultants. Not enough time actually listening to real people.” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/19/texas-storm-response-cruz-abbott-perry-470109
Texas governor walks back Fox News comments on Green New Deal, says gas, coal failed in Texas freeze Abbott said "our wind and our solar got shut down," which "thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis." The main culprit for the Texas power outages is failures in the natural gas sector, though, so on Wednesday, Abbott walked back his comments. "I was asked a question on one TV show about renewable, and I responded to that question," Abbott said. "Every source of power that the state of Texas has has been compromised, whether it be renewable power such as wind or solar, but also, as I mentioned today, access to coal-generated power, access to gas-generated power, also have been compromised." https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-governor-walks-back-fox-052453616.html
