Fatal Consequences
4/19/21
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from TPPF,
4/19/21:
What to Know: Nearly 200 people died in the February winter storm and the power failures that ensued, a new analysis shows.
The TPPF Take: Over-reliance on wind and solar power helped to cause those power failures.
“In the last five years alone, Texas added some 20,000 megawatts of installed capacity of wind and solar while losing a net of 4,000 megawatts of coal and natural gas,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “This fact alone meant that had every thermal plant operated flawlessly during the height of the polar vortex, Texas still would have been short some 2,000 megawatts of potential demand—a new record in a state that is used to setting electricity consumption records in the summer.”
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