BY
ARISTOS GEORGIOU ON 2/17/21 AT 11:30 AM EST
Dan Woodfin, a senior ERCOT director, said on Tuesday according to
Bloomberg: "We've had some issues with pretty much every kind of generating capacity in the course of this multi-day event."
In a press call on Tuesday, Woodfin said that of the 45,000 megawatts of power that were offline across Texas, thermal sources, which include gas, coal and nuclear plants, accounted for around 30,000 megawatts.
Renewable sources, meanwhile, accounted for around 16,000 megawatts of the power that was offline. Wind energy in particular was responsible for less than 13 percent—between 3,600 to 4,500 megawatts—of the total outages, Woodfin said, according to Bloomberg.
This is the latest data put out by ERCOT. This is the graph I posted earlier:
The text above is from Wednesday the 17th. The graph shows data from Tuesday the 16th.
While wind can sometimes produce as much as
60% of total electricity in Texas, the resource tends to ebb in the winter, so the grid operator typically assumes that the turbines will generate only about
19% to 43% of their maximum output.
Even so, wind generation has actually
exceeded the grid operator’s daily forecast through the weekend.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...were-just-a-small-piece-of-texas-s-power-woes
So wind power actually exceeded projections even with 1/3 of the turbines out. Unreal.
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