Just watched the news. It advised that there are what they call "peaker" plants. They cost more to operate, and aren't as efficient, but are used for exactly this situation. For "whatever reason(s)" these plants aren't being utilized. Sorry, but, this has the stink of politics to me. Don't care which color.. . . . read an article that said part of Texas rolling black out problem is that the wind generators were frozen (that's the answer for the future along with solar ) and the ones that were working were working at twice the design speed ( prone to failure) as for solar till yesterday there has been no sunshine for over a week . . . .
"Texas" has bragged about their power grid being separate from the rest of the country, and how they have plenty of power. Might be true, if they use the entire grid. The city of Abilene didn't consider their water plants as critical. They shut the power off to the plants. . . . no water for an entire city.. WTF.
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