They just averted rolling blackouts. Love the reliability of that green energy - not.
Don, I read the only reason they avoided blackouts was because enough wind/solar was put online
to avoid what happened last time. ??
With all the folks moving to Texas, I would think your utility would be building more conventional generation.
Takes many years to get a plant built though.
Solar is fast...
and with all those oil well pumps sticking up, guess no one cares about looking at windmills.
we need new nuke plants running steam turbines. Tried and true.
Old tech now, too bad no one has come up with a politically acceptable way of storing the radioactive waste.
Seems to make folks froth at the mouth.
Two years I spent in power gen industry were fascinating. Got to see every type of power gen except for solar and wind.
My favorites were the hydros, walking out on Conowingo Dam was very cool, and the nuke plants.
It's just a different way of boiling water and we have dealt with this tech for a very long time.
Any powerplant using steam turbines usually needs to be near water.
The trick is not being too close to the water (Fukushima).
Only true reliability is to have some excess capacity to allow downtime due to planned outage or unplanned.
Modern grid management is pretty interesting science.
Frits, solve this for Texas please...
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