The people of Texas head into the winter of 2021/2022 knowing that their power grid still features the same major, chronic inadequacies as the grid that failed them 9 months ago, when more than 200 Texans died freezing in the dark.
The wake of the blackout situation of 2011 saw proponents of the various energy sources all taking shots at one another. Wind advocates pointed at natural gas; natural gas advocates pointed at wind; and everyone took shots at the coal plants.
The biggest problem - a problem that has been well-known to all involved for at least a decade now - that no one in Austin has addressed as we head into the coming winter is the issue of inadequate dispatchable reserve thermal capacity on the system. A few days after I wrote that Feb.
We must build more gas plants so that our dispatchable resources have the capacity to cover our electric needs now and going forward. One option is to incentivize investors to build more plants by leveling the playing field between renewables and dispatchable thermal energy. Renewables receive massive federal subsidies as well as some state incentives...
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